Journal

Please use one of the prompts below to get your journaling started.

• Explore your fears and what’s behind them.
• Write about a relational conflict you are experiencing.
• List out all that you are grateful for.
• Recall a significant reaction, conversation or event.

• Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals:
  • A Guide to Journaling & Prayer
  • A Guide to Self-Reflection
  • A Chart to help articulate feelings

Romans 1 Commentary

Romans 2 Commentary

Bible Text: Romans 2:1-5 (ESV)

¹ Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. ² We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. ³ Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴ Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? ⁵ But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Reflection Questions to help us go deeper

Romans 2:1-5

• Are there ways in which I am “passing judgment on another” even though I am guilty of doing the very thing that I condemn?

Romans 2:4-5

• Reflect on why God’s kindness, forbearance and patience would lead to repentance in some people, and not in others.
• Recall the times God’s kindness, forbearance, and patience has led me to repentance.

Prayer