Angela E. Powell

I’ve slowly been making my way through Romans lately and I’m finding it fascinating. Right now, in Romans 8, where I’ve been reading the first passage for at least 4 days now, I keep going over the first several verses. “And because you belong to Him the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God sent Jesus and declared an end to sins contr

Several months ago, as I was reading my way through the whole Bible I got to Hosea, and I felt like the Lord wanted me to study this book and write about His love. And for some reason I became like a child who has been asked to clean their room and they suddenly have a million other things they “have” to do, or they go into said room and get distracted by every single toy and the cleaning process takes hours instead of minutes. Except, for me, it took months. At the time, I h

I’ve been asking myself a lot of questions lately about why I believe what I believe. I’ve been told a lot of things over the course of my 40 years about what is true about the Bible but haven’t really ever done the research myself. And it feels like I’m going through a season of unlearning, or relearning because I keep finding myself asking, “What would I say if someone asked me questions about such and such topic.” Many times, what my brain delivers to me is a mix of things

I’ve been working my way through the Bible this year with the intent of marking cross-references in every book. This includes all the Old Testament verses that are quoted or referenced in the New Testament, but also going through each Old Testament book and noting which books were written around the same time period, which ones overlapped, which ones mention the same events/people, etc. And because the Old Testament is so much bigger than the New, I’ve been parked in the Old

For the past week I have been sorting through some thoughts that started with an emotional reaction I had to an acquaintance casually...

You know in Romans 7, when Paul is like, "I want to do the right thing and not the things I know I shouldn't, but I still fail...

A few nights ago I had dream from God. This isn’t unusual for me, I’ve had dreams my whole life. Some are from the Lord, some aren’t....

I'm reading through 1 Corinthians and came across this verse: For even if you had ten thousand others to teach you about Christ, you have...

Have you ever wondered if you're in God's plan for your life or not? I contemplate this on occasion and was doing so recently because I...

There is no clearer picture of letting go of our own plans and giving into God’s, than on a ranch. I tend to be a perfectionist. I will...