When God's Plan Looks Like Failure

Aug 16, 2026  •  The Rev. Billy Cerveny

How do you keep worshiping a God whose plans look, from the outside, like they have failed? Paul faces that question in Romans 11 as many of his fellow Jews reject Jesus, and answers that God's promise stands: the vine of Israel, Jesus the true vine and the grafted-in Gentiles belong to one story larger than any single chapter. Alfred Nobel, reading his own premature obituary, never saw the prize his dismay would create.