Do believers sin?
When I was a new Christian, I told another believer that I was struggling with controlling my temper. She told me that I was not a genuine Christian because if I was, I wouldn't sin. If she is right, not only was I not a...
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What is the Word of Life?
Is the gospel message of the Word of Life, a "pie in the sky" other worldly gospel? Suppose I give a starving person enough food to eat to this week and next week she starves. Have I failed? Be the first to know when it'...
11 Deliverance from Sin (Romans 8.1-12)
Romans 8:1–11 announces some of the best news in the Christian life: in Christ, we are no longer trapped in the moral paralysis of Romans 7. God has not only declared us righteous; He has given us His own Spirit as the l...
10 Law and Sin (Romans 7:7-25)
Romans 7:7–25 pulls us into the honest, inner struggle of the Christian life: we genuinely want to obey God, yet we keep tripping over the same sins we hate. In this episode, we look at Paul’s confession—“I do not do wha...
09 Grace and the Law (Romans 6:15-7:6)
Romans 6:15–7:6 tackles a lingering accusation against the gospel of grace: if our inheritance is secure and we are no longer under the Law, why not sin freely? In this episode, we walk through Paul’s answer that there i...
08 Grace and Slavery to Sin (Romans 6:1-14)
Romans 6:1–14 tackles a sharp and unsettling question: if God’s grace covers all our sin, why not keep on sinning? In this episode, we walk through Paul’s resounding “Absolutely not!” and see that grace is not permission...
07 Grace Abounds (Romans 5:12-21)
Romans 5:12–21 shows us that the whole human story hangs on two people—Adam and Jesus—and that God’s grace in Christ is far stronger than the damage Adam unleashed. In this episode, we trace Paul’s argument that sin and...
06 The Hope of the Gospel (Romans 5:1-11)
Romans 5:1–11 opens up a stunning reality: in Christ, we are not just forgiven—we are guaranteed to become the kind of people who are truly and forever “good enough” in God’s eyes. In this episode, we trace Paul’s argume...
05 The Example of Abraham (Romans 4)
Romans 4 invites us to watch Paul hold up Abraham as the family pattern for everyone who will ever know God—not as a spiritual superstar who earned his way in, but as a sinner who received righteousness as a sheer gift....
04 Objections Overruled (Romans 3)
In this episode, we sit with the hard but honest news of Romans 3: that no amount of self-help, positive thinking, or religious effort can cure the deeper disease of sin. Paul brings both religious insiders and obvious o...
03 God’s Wrath and the Religious (Romans 2)
God’s judgment is not just for “those people out there”—it comes home to the moral, the religious, and the respectable as well. In this episode, we walk through Romans 2:1–29 to see how Paul turns the spotlight from obvi...
02 God's Wrath and the Pagan (Romans 1:18-32)
Before Paul announces the good news of the gospel, he first tells us why we so desperately need it. In this episode, Krisan Marotta walks through Romans 1:18–32 to explain what Scripture means by the wrath of God, why it...
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