Posts with the category “faith-and-justification”

This week, Pastor Bob led us into Romans 9:1–16, a passage that feels both beautiful and heavy. After the mountaintop of Romans 8—where we hear about God’s love, our adoption as His children, and the ...  Read More

This powerful exploration of Romans 8 addresses one of our most fundamental struggles: the battle against sin in our daily lives. We discover that there are typically two ineffective ways we try to ha...  Read More

The sermon explains Romans 7 as Paul honestly describing his ongoing struggle with sin as a believer. God’s law is good, but our sinful nature twists it, and there is no such thing as a “small” sin—ev...  Read More

In Romans 6:15–23, Paul reminds us that we all serve a master — either sin, which leads to death, or Christ, who leads to life. True freedom isn’t doing whatever we want, but joyfully submitting to th...  Read More

Abraham and David were not saved by their works but by faith in God’s promises. Paul reminds us in Romans 3–4 that we cannot “balance the account” of our sins with good deeds. Salvation is by grace al...  Read More