A Douglas Vandergraph Legacy Article There are messages people hear so often in churches today that they start believing they’re biblical even when they’re nowhere near the heart of Jesus. Messages that sound like this: “You’re not worthy.” “You’re disappointing God.” “You’re ungrateful.” “You’re
Romans 16 is the kind of chapter most believers skim through — a long list of names, greetings, and personal acknowledgments that many treat like the biblical version of end-credits. But when you sit with this chapter… When you breathe inside it… When you let the Spirit show you why the
There are chapters in the Bible that don’t just speak to you—they stabilize you. They become a kind of spiritual anchor for the days when you feel like you’re holding everything together with a frayed shoelace and a whispered prayer. Romans 15 is that kind of chapter.
There are chapters in Scripture that sharpen our thinking, chapters that confront our behavior, and chapters that command us to rise higher. Then there are chapters like Romans 14—chapters that reach deep into the wounds, tensions, divisions, emotions, and misunderstandings that happen inside real communities of faith. Romans 14
Hope is one of the most powerful forces a human being can carry inside their chest, and yet it’s also one of the most fragile. It can be bruised by disappointment, shaken by delays, stretched thin by unanswered prayers, and tested by long seasons of uncertainty. And still, something
There are chapters in Scripture that don’t merely teach; they confront. They walk into the room, close the door gently behind them, sit across from you, and speak with the kind of authority that leaves your heart unable to pretend it didn’t hear something holy. Romans 13 is
There are chapters in Scripture that don’t just speak to us, they shape us. Romans 12 is one of them. It doesn’t simply tell us how to behave—it calls us to become something different, something higher, something holy. And as I sit with this chapter, I can
A Legacy Article on Romans 11 by Douglas Vandergraph** There are chapters in Scripture that feel like mountaintops—places where the air gets thinner, the perspective gets wider, and suddenly you’re not standing in your own story anymore. You’re standing in God’s. Romans 11 is one of
There is a moment in every believer’s life where the Holy Spirit whispers something so simple—yet so life-altering—that it shifts the entire direction of the soul. Sometimes it comes through Scripture. Sometimes through experience. And sometimes, it arrives as a sentence so powerful that it awakens you
There are chapters in Scripture that read like history, and there are chapters that read like prophecy, but Romans 10 reads like a heartbeat. It pulses. It breathes. It cries. It aches. It reaches out. It reaches upward. And it reaches into the deepest chambers of a believer’s soul,
There are chapters in Scripture that feel like walking into a quiet courtroom where God Himself speaks from the bench. Romans 9 is one of those chapters. It isn’t a place where you go to hear easy answers, comfortable explanations, or soft edges. It is a place where Paul
Romans 7 is one of the most honest, exposed, painfully human chapters in the entire Bible. It is the apostle Paul rolling up his sleeves, opening the deepest drawer of his soul, and saying, “Here. This is the battle we all fight, even the ones who preach the loudest and