Romans 1-8 is perhaps the most clearly delineated presentation of the Gospel in the entire New Testament. Hopefully, my mini-commentary on Romans 1-8 has been h...
Yes, suffering. Nobody likes it. We’d much rather avoid it, and instead focus on the uplifting ideas of salvation and triumph in the Spirit. Well, I’ve got bad ...
We now come to Romans 8—the point Paul has been building up to throughout his entire argument. So pay attention… Now, Romans 7:7-25 is, to say the least, quite...
The late Christian music pioneer Keith Green had a song entitled “Romans VII.” It was on his album, So You Want To Go Back to Egypt? If you were a Christian kid...
Romans 6:1-7:6 really act as a unit—it is a shame that whoever put in chapter breaks, put the beginning of chapter 7 where it currently is. What we find here is...
We now come to Romans 5:12-21, a section, ironically that is often used by young earth creationists to argue for the historicity of Adam. The argument basically...
In our journey through Romans, we now come to a different section of Paul’s argument. We must always remember, though, what Paul has been arguing up to this poi...
Here we are now at Romans 4. Let’s do a quick recap, so we can always keep in mind the flow of Paul’s argument. Paul has argued: All Gentiles are sinful and des...
In my last post, I gave the analogy of the Torah being like a medical report that diagnoses cancer. As welcomed and vital as that medical report is, only a fool...
As we move on to Romans 3, we need to remember that Paul is in the process of building an argument. He is ultimately going to get to the question, “How does the...