The original readers of the letter to the Romans were both Jews and Greeks who had come to faith in Jesus Christ. Many of the Jews across the region still clung to the idea that the Law of God and the rite of circumcision passed down from their forefathers put…
In Romans 1, when Paul confronted the stuff we’d rather not talk about and laid out the litany of sinful lifestyles people who deny God get caught up in, he knew there were some in the crowd with puffed chests and raised chins. He knew people were looking around at…