Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, president of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. We're still in the book of Romans if you can believe this. I mean it's when you left

we were in Romans 11 and as you step back in with us now we're in Romans 12 and I think it would be appropriate for me to begin in a word of

prayer so I want to do that so let's go to the Lord in prayer. Father we pray that as we look into your word today that it would

have great penetrating power into our hearts and that means the Holy Spirit must be attending this study and inside of us

and doing the work that only he can do.

So Spirit of the Living God, we pray that you would cause your word to explode in our hearts,

both to build us up as well as to challenge us.

Do all of this. both to build us up as well as to challenge us.

Do all of this, we pray in Christ's name,

amen.

Okay, well, man, take your Bible

and step back into the book of Romans with me, Romans chapter 12.

And as you are, let me just greet everyone who's joining us around the country, around the world,

wherever you are.

Thank you every Thursday morning when I'm in town,

and I've been in town for a long time

and will be in town for a while.

We'll be here for this study and so every blessing in the Lord

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