Recent Posts from Roots by the River

My Life for Yours

“Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up” (Romans 15:2). I want. I need. I desire. I deserve. These are much different [...]

Enabled to Be Holy

“I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, [...]

The Humility Harness

  “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love” (Ephesians 4:2). Notice the word “completely.” Apparently, it is possible to be completely humble [...]