Words From The Word

Were you ever cut off from God's promises? In this episode of Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster opens Ephesians 2:12 (KJV) and reveals five ways the Gentiles were separated from God before Christ came — without a savior, without citizenship, and without covenant. You will learn how spiritual alienation blinds the heart, why the Abrahamic covenant matters to believers today, and how...

Have you ever watched a disagreement tear a church apart and wondered — is there a better way? In this episode of Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster takes us into Acts 15:18-31 (KJV) and the Jerusalem Council, where early church leaders faced one of the most heated debates in Christian history. You will learn how James led with wisdom, how the apostles responded to false teaching with tr...

Can a tradition — even a religious one — get in the way of someone receiving salvation? That is the question at the heart of Acts 15:1-35 (KJV), and it is just as relevant today as it was in the early church. In this episode of Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster walks through the Jerusalem Council, where Peter, Paul, Barnabas, and James each stood up to defend the grace of God for all pe...

Are you trying to earn what God has already given freely through Christ? In this episode of Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster walks us through Galatians 2:11-21 (KJV) and the powerful confrontation between Paul and Peter at Antioch. You will learn why Peter's hypocrisy was dangerous, how peer pressure can compromise even mature believers, and why placing your trust in law-keeping in...

Have you ever wondered if you truly belong — if God really included someone like you? In this episode of Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster explores Ephesians 2:11 (KJV) and unpacks the deep social and spiritual divisions that existed in the early church. You will learn why true circumcision is a matter of the heart, not the flesh, and how the grace of God through Christ Jesus breaks dow...

Are you wondering how God is preparing you for the life and work He has called you to? In this episode of Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster of Good News Baptist Church, Sint Maarten, unpacks Ephesians 4:7-16, Hebrews 13:20-21, and 1 Peter 4:11-14 from the KJV to show that God is actively equipping His people. You will learn how the Word of God, prayer, and suffering each work together t...

Are you trying to earn what God has already freely given? In this episode of Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster tackles one of the most misunderstood topics in the Christian life — the role of works in salvation and in the saved life. Drawing from Galatians 2, Galatians 3, Hebrews 6, and Ephesians 2 in the KJV, Pastor Webster makes it clear that while no work can produce salvation, true...

Can your bad works undo what grace already did? That is the question Pastor Roderick Webster tackles in this powerful daily devotion from Words From The Word, drawing from Romans 3, Romans 4, Romans 11, Galatians 2, 2 Timothy 1, and Titus 3 in the King James Version. You might be asking: If I was not saved by my good works, can I be lost by my bad works? Does God require me to earn or maintain my...

Have you ever felt like you need to do more to deserve God's love? In this episode of Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster walks through Ephesians 2:7-8 (KJV) to remind us that salvation has never been about what we do — it is entirely about what God has done. You will learn why grace means God does it all for Jesus' sake, why faith is not a work but a response of trust, and why Je...

Are you a trophy of God's grace? In this devotion from Ephesians 2, Pastor Roderick Webster unpacks one of the most breathtaking truths in all of Scripture — that God did not save us merely to rescue us from hell, but to put us on display as living proof of His amazing grace for all eternity. Drawing from Ephesians 2:4-14 and 2 Corinthians 5:19 (KJV), Pastor Webster walks us through three powe...

Are you still wrapped in graveclothes after God has already called you out of the grave? In this powerful devotion from Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster walks us through Ephesians chapter 2 verses 5 and 6, Romans chapter 6, Colossians chapter 2 verse 13, and the story of Lazarus in John chapter 11, all from the King James Version, to show us what it truly means to be made alive in Chri...

Were you dead in sin before God made you alive? In today's Words From The Word devotion, Pastor Roderick Webster opens Ephesians 2:5 (KJV) — "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved)" — and unpacks one of the most powerful truths in all of Scripture: God does not wait for us to be good enough. He meets us in our spiritual death an...

Does God's love really reach the worst of sinners? In this Words From The Word daily devotion, Pastor Roderick Webster opens Ephesians 2:1-4 (KJV) and unpacks one of the most powerful turning points in all of Scripture — the words "But God." You might be asking yourself: Am I too far gone for God to forgive me? What is the difference between mercy and grace? Why would God love someon...

Are you still under God's wrath — or has your account been settled? In this episode of Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster of Good News Baptist Church in Sint Maarten walks us through one of the most sobering — and most hopeful — passages in all of Scripture. Drawing from Romans 1 and Ephesians 2 (KJV), Pastor Webster shows us what it means to live under the wrath of God and what it m...

Are you a child of wrath — or a child of grace? In this devotion from Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster opens Ephesians chapter 2, verse 3 (KJV) to explain the third force that drives human disobedience — the flesh. Not the physical body, but the fallen nature every person is born with. You might be asking — Does that mean unsaved people never do anything good? Can good deeds earn salva...

Are you living under the three forces that push people toward disobedience against God? In today's Words From The Word devotion, Pastor Roderick Webster opens Ephesians 2:2 (KJV) and walks us through the powerful reality of how the world, the devil, and the flesh work together to keep people in spiritual bondage. You might be asking: Why do I keep struggling with the same patterns? Why is it s...

Are you among the many on the broad road, or among the few on the narrow way? In this devotion from Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster draws from Ephesians chapter 2 and several powerful scriptures to show us the serious condition of the person who does not know Christ as Savior — and the urgent choice every soul must make. You might be asking yourself today: - How do I know if I am trul...

Are you dead in sin — or alive in Christ? In this devotion from Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster opens Ephesians chapter 2 and walks us through one of the most sobering and hopeful truths in all of Scripture — that every person born into this world is born spiritually dead because of Adam's sin, but that death is not the end of the story. Drawing from Luke 7:12-15, John 11, Genesis...

Are you spiritually dead or alive in Christ? That is the deep and personal question Pastor Roderick Webster opens up in this devotion from Ephesians chapter two, using the King James Version of the Bible. In this episode of Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster walks us through the powerful contrast Paul draws in Ephesians two between the walk of the unregenerate person, dead in trespasses...

Do you know the power you already have in Christ? In this devotion from Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster opens Ephesians chapter one and unpacks one of the most encouraging truths in the New Testament — that believers already possess divine, resurrection power through Jesus Christ. Drawing from Ephesians 1:19-23, Acts 1:8, 2 Corinthians 4:9, and Romans 1:16 (KJV), Pastor Roderick Webst...

Do you know the hope God placed in your calling? In this devotion from Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster opens Ephesians chapter 1 verse 18 (KJV) and walks us through one of the most powerful truths a believer can grasp — that God called you not because of anything you did, but because of His own purpose and grace. You might be asking — Why would God choose me? What does it mean to be c...

Do you have the mind of Christ needed to truly understand the things of God? In this Words From The Word devotion, Pastor Roderick Webster of Good News Baptist Church draws from Ephesians, John 14:25-26, John 16:12-14, and 1 Corinthians 2:9-16 (KJV) to unpack what it means to be spiritually enlightened and why the natural mind simply cannot grasp the deep things of God on its own. You might be ask...

Are you truly growing in the knowledge of God, or do you only know about Him? In this Words From The Word daily devotion, Pastor Roderick Webster opens Colossians 1:9-12 (KJV) and walks us through the Apostle Paul's powerful prayer for the believers at Colosse — a prayer that asked for no material things, only that they would know God more deeply, walk worthy of Him, and bear fruit in every go...

Are you praying for what people truly need most? In this devotion from Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster opens Philippians 1:9-11 and Colossians 1:9 (KJV) to show us that the Apostle Paul's prayers went far deeper than physical needs — he prayed for love, knowledge, wisdom, and spiritual understanding. You might be asking: Why does Paul pray for spiritual things instead of physical...

Are you praying specifically for the people you love? In this episode of Words From The Word, Pastor Roderick Webster opens Ephesians chapter 3, verses 14 through 21, from the King James Version, to walk us through one of the most powerful prayers in all of Scripture — the Apostle Paul's prayer for the believers at Ephesus. You might be asking: Does it really matter how specific I am when I pr...