Feb 27, 2019
In order to show us the fullness of what Jesus has accomplished at the cross, Paul takes us into an argument with his former self (the zealous Pharisee).
The subject: Torah. For it was Israel's long-held belief that Torah served as something of a protection against sin and its full consequences.
And that belief turns...
Feb 18, 2019
In a move of rhetorical brilliance (as many in Romans are)! Paul takes the judgmentalism he has just provoked in his readers and turns it back upon themselves (i.e., us!). Whatever speck we may wish to pluck from our neighbor's eye, we must first contend with the plank in our own.
But this is more than a morality...
Feb 15, 2019
Few controversies have raised more ire and ugliness in the contemporary church than the debate about the place (or lack thereof) of homosexual relationships within the community of faith (and the larger culture). And at the center of that debate are Paul's words in Romans 1:18-32.
In this episode we examine this highly...
Feb 1, 2019
"Paul, a slave of King Jesus, called to be an appointed messenger, set apart for the announcing of the news of God’s victory."
With these words Paul opened his letter to the church at Rome and set the course of Christian theology.
In this episode we examine Paul's letter opening in light of the literary conventions of...