Romans chapter 8 closes with some of the most encouraging words in the Bible. These verses have been referred to by theologians as the Golden Chain. Some chains are a source of captivity, and those are the chains that Jesus came to break. But some chains hold us safely in…
Before I surrendered to Jesus I was controlled by my flesh and trapped by sin. God’s law was embedded in my conscience, but it was impossible to keep no matter how much I struggled and strived. It both tempted me to sin and condemned me for it. Every box left…
Our study of Romans started intense and uncomfortable. Paul boldly proclaimed the wrath of God against all ungodliness and presented an airtight case for mankind’s guilt. This bad news made us eager for some good news, and we were introduced to the gospel of righteousness attained through faith. Now here…
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…
Don’t tune out, yet. I know we’re talking about things that make us squirm, but we can’t skip over the parts of the Bible that make us uncomfortable. Romans 1:24-32 is one of those passages. We don’t hear many sermons on it or see many pithy social media posts about…