August 30th, 2026 - Confidence

Passage in Focus: Romans 8:31-39

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Confidence
3 weddings and a funeral

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The conclusion of the matter
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things?

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Beyond self-confidence
 If God is for us, who can be against us?

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All-Generous
32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

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Justifying Judge
33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one.

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The God-Whisperer
Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

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A loving presence in chaos
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

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A High Calling
36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

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More than confidence
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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Conviction
38 For I am convinced

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The list
neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation

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Connected to love
nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Where are you connected to love in a way that makes you confident?