Podcasts about romans chapter

We find Romans 4 in the flow of Paul's argument: having shown that no one is justified by works of the law, Paul turns to Abraham to prove that faith, not law-keeping, has always been how people entered right relationship with God. Verses one to eight set up the contrast between wages earned and a gift freely given, with David's psalm on forgiven sin reinforcing the same point from the other direction. The episode gets into the chronology that matters most to Paul's case: Abraham was counted righteous in Genesis 15, well before his circumcision in Genesis 17, making him father of the uncircumcised who believe as much as of the circumcised who share his faith. Jo, Chris, and Alex unpack why this timing dismantles any claim that ethnic or ritual markers secure a place in God's family, and how the promise to Abraham was always meant to rest on grace and cover "all his offspring," not just those under the law. The episode closes on the second half of the chapter, where Paul paints Abraham's faith in vivid terms: believing against hope that he and Sarah, both as good as dead, would have a child, fully convinced God was able to do what He had promised. Jo, Chris, and Alex trace the echoes of Isaac's near-sacrifice and the language of God giving life to the dead, showing how Abraham's story anticipates the resurrection of Jesus and becomes, in Paul's hands, not just an example for us but the pattern our own faith is counted by. Resources The Epistle to the Romans - Douglas Moo (NICNT) Romans - Thomas Schreiner (BECNT) Romans - Beverly Roberts Gaventa (NTL) The Epistle to the Romans - Richard Longenecker (NIGTC) The Epistle to the Romans - Leon Morris (PNTC) Big thanks to Tim Whittle for editing and extra production on this podcast. Get more info at Riverlife Church, and find us on Facebook and Instagram.Subscribe to Bible Streams on Apple, Spotify, Google, and Amazon.

Welcome to Time in the Word, a Bible teaching ministry of A Love Outreach. In this episode, Pastor Dave will walk us through Romans chapter 13 with a practical, verse-by-verse reading and discussion. This is a simple Spirit-led time in God's Word—reading the Scriptures and pausing along the way to reflect, explain, and apply what we see. Whether you are new to the Bible or have walked with the Lord for years, our prayer is that this time in the Word would draw you closer to Jesus, strengthen your faith, and deepen your understanding of His truth.

More than a repairer, Jesus is the restorer!... and he has a plan to restore you to what God intended you to be, before Adam introduced sin into the world. Join Clint as he guides you through Romans Chapter 5 and other New Testament scriptures as we learn more about the miracles Jesus can and will do within us.

Welcome to Time in the Word, a Bible teaching ministry of A Love Outreach. In this episode, Pastor Dave will walk us through Romans chapter 12 with a practical, verse-by-verse reading and discussion. This is a simple Spirit-led time in God's Word—reading the Scriptures and pausing along the way to reflect, explain, and apply what we see. Whether you are new to the Bible or have walked with the Lord for years, our prayer is that this time in the Word would draw you closer to Jesus, strengthen your faith, and deepen your understanding of His truth.

Chris is back from his New Zealand trip and rejoins Jo and Alex for Romans chapter three, after a recap of the ground covered in chapters one and two. They open with Paul's question about what advantage there is in being Jewish, reading it alongside his insistence that Israel was entrusted with God's promises to steward on behalf of the world, not to keep for itself, and that human unfaithfulness cannot undo God's own faithfulness to what He has promised.  The middle of the episode covers Paul's catena of Old Testament quotations in verses nine to twenty, a chain of Psalms and prophetic texts hammering home that no one, Jew or Gentile, is righteous. Jo, Alex, and Chris talk through why Paul builds his case this way, drawing on scripture the Jewish audience already treasured, before turning to the hinge of the chapter: the righteousness of God revealed apart from the law, in Jesus Christ. This leads into a careful, wide-ranging discussion of justification, redemption, and propitiation, including the Old Testament mercy-seat imagery behind that last word and how it should and shouldn't shape our picture of God's wrath.  The episode closes on the final verses of the chapter, where Paul concludes that boasting is excluded and that God is the God of Jews and Gentiles alike, justified by faith rather than by works of the law. Chris, Jo, and Alex are careful to note this doesn't mean Jewish believers need to abandon their heritage, just that it was never what secured their standing with God. It's a dense, hopeful turning point in the letter, and one that sets up the worked example of Abraham still to come in chapter four. Resources The Epistle to the Romans - Douglas Moo (NICNT) Romans - Thomas Schreiner (BECNT) Romans - Beverly Roberts Gaventa (NTL) The Epistle to the Romans - Richard Longenecker (NIGTC) The Epistle to the Romans - Leon Morris (PNTC) Big thanks to Tim Whittle for editing and extra production on this podcast. Get more info at Riverlife Church, and find us on Facebook and Instagram.Subscribe to Bible Streams on Apple, Spotify, Google, and Amazon.

Welcome to Time in the Word, a Bible teaching ministry of A Love Outreach. In this episode, Pastor Dave will walk us through Romans chapter 11 with a practical, verse-by-verse reading and discussion. This is a simple Spirit-led time in God's Word—reading the Scriptures and pausing along the way to reflect, explain, and apply what we see. Whether you are new to the Bible or have walked with the Lord for years, our prayer is that this time in the Word would draw you closer to Jesus, strengthen your faith, and deepen your understanding of His truth.

Welcome to Time in the Word, a Bible teaching ministry of A Love Outreach. In this episode, Pastor Dave will walk us through Romans chapter 9 with a practical, verse-by-verse reading and discussion. This is a simple Spirit-led time in God's Word—reading the Scriptures and pausing along the way to reflect, explain, and apply what we see. Whether you are new to the Bible or have walked with the Lord for years, our prayer is that this time in the Word would draw you closer to Jesus, strengthen your faith, and deepen your understanding of His truth.

Welcome to Time in the Word, a Bible teaching ministry of A Love Outreach. In this episode, Pastor Dave will walk us through Romans chapter 8 with a practical, verse-by-verse reading and discussion. This is a simple Spirit-led time in God's Word—reading the Scriptures and pausing along the way to reflect, explain, and apply what we see. Whether you are new to the Bible or have walked with the Lord for years, our prayer is that this time in the Word would draw you closer to Jesus, strengthen your faith, and deepen your understanding of His truth.

Still with Chris away, Jo and Alex press on through Romans chapter two, picking up straight after chapter one's diagnosis of the Gentile world. They open with a quick recap of where Paul's argument left off, before showing how chapter two springs the trap chapter one quietly set: those quick to judge Gentile wrongdoing turn out to be doing the same things themselves.  The middle of the episode works through Paul's diatribal style, his use of a chiasm in verses six to eleven around works and judgment, and the tricky question of whether Paul is describing a hypothetical or a real possibility when he speaks of eternal life for those who persist in doing good. Jo and Alex dig into what the law meant for Jewish identity, the role of conscience for those without the law, and why Paul is at pains to remove any sense of exceptionalism, whether ethnic, religious, or otherwise.  The episode closes on Paul's argument about circumcision, contrasting outward, physical markers of belonging with an inward circumcision of the heart worked by the Spirit. Jo and Alex read this alongside Old Testament texts including Ezekiel and Deuteronomy, and flag the bigger, unresolved question it raises about the identity of true Israel, one Paul returns to later in the letter. It's a dense chapter, but one they work through carefully and with good humour, closing with the question that opens chapter three: what advantage, then, is there in being Jewish? Resources The Epistle to the Romans - Douglas Moo (NICNT) Romans - Thomas Schreiner (BECNT) Romans - Beverly Roberts Gaventa (NTL) The Epistle to the Romans - Richard Longenecker (NIGTC) The Epistle to the Romans - Leon Morris (PNTC) Big thanks to Tim Whittle for editing and extra production on this podcast. Get more info at Riverlife Church, and find us on Facebook and Instagram.Subscribe to Bible Streams on Apple, Spotify, Google, and Amazon.

Welcome to Time in the Word, a Bible teaching ministry of A Love Outreach. In this episode, Pastor Dave will walk us through Romans chapter 10 with a practical, verse-by-verse reading and discussion. This is a simple Spirit-led time in God's Word—reading the Scriptures and pausing along the way to reflect, explain, and apply what we see. Whether you are new to the Bible or have walked with the Lord for years, our prayer is that this time in the Word would draw you closer to Jesus, strengthen your faith, and deepen your understanding of His truth.

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Welcome to Time in the Word, a Bible teaching ministry of A Love Outreach. In this episode, Pastor Dave will walk us through Romans chapter 7 with a practical, verse-by-verse reading and discussion. This is a simple Spirit-led time in God's Word—reading the Scriptures and pausing along the way to reflect, explain, and apply what we see. Whether you are new to the Bible or have walked with the Lord for years, our prayer is that this time in the Word would draw you closer to Jesus, strengthen your faith, and deepen your understanding of His truth.

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Chris is away, so Jo and Alex soldier on alone for a deep dive into Romans chapter one. After a quick recap of last episode's discussion on authorship, occasion, and audience, they move into the text itself, working through it in three sections: verses one to seven, eight to fifteen, and sixteen through to the end of the chapter.  The first section covers Paul's dense opening sentence, in which he stacks up three self-designations: slave, apostle, and one set apart for the gospel - that foreshadow themes he unpacks across the rest of the letter. Jo and Alex trace the Hebrew and Greco-Roman background behind these titles, before turning to verses sixteen and seventeen, which they treat as the theme statement for the whole book. Much of the middle of the episode is given over to "the righteousness of God," running through the Augustinian, Reformed, and "New Perspective" readings, and landing on N.T. Wright's suggestion that the phrase carries covenantal, forensic, and eschatological layers all at once.  The back half of the chapter, Paul's account of humanity exchanging the Creator for creation, gets careful handling. Jo and Alex read verses eighteen to thirty-two alongside the Wisdom of Solomon and the early chapters of Genesis, arguing Paul is diagnosing a universal human condition rather than pointing to any one group or behaviour. It's a thoughtful reminder that Paul's argument is building toward the conclusion that everyone, Jew and Gentile alike, stands in need of the same solution. Resources The Epistle to the Romans - Douglas Moo (NICNT) Romans - Thomas Schreiner (BECNT) Romans - Beverly Roberts Gaventa (NTL) The Epistle to the Romans - Richard Longenecker (NIGTC) The Epistle to the Romans - Leon Morris (PNTC) Big thanks to Tim Whittle for editing and extra production on this podcast. Get more info at Riverlife Church, and find us on Facebook and Instagram.Subscribe to Bible Streams on Apple, Spotify, Google, and Amazon.

Welcome to Time in the Word, a Bible teaching ministry of A Love Outreach. In this episode, Pastor Dave will walk us through Romans chapter 6 with a practical, verse-by-verse reading and discussion. This is a simple Spirit-led time in God's Word—reading the Scriptures and pausing along the way to reflect, explain, and apply what we see. Whether you are new to the Bible or have walked with the Lord for years, our prayer is that this time in the Word would draw you closer to Jesus, strengthen your faith, and deepen your understanding of His truth.

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In this powerful Bible study, Father Genard Lazar breaks down Romans Chapter 5 — the contrast between Adam and Christ, sin and grace, death and life.Discover how sin and death entered the world through one man's disobedience, yet God's grace abounds much more through Jesus Christ, bringing justification, righteousness, and eternal life.From the Assyrian Church of the East perspective, learn what we truly inherit from Adam (consequences, not personal guilt), the purpose of the Law, and how to live as justified believers who persevere in faith.Key Takeaways• Christ's grace is greater than Adam's offense• We inherit mortality & inclination to sin — not guilt• Grace is not a license to sin — it calls us to repentance and obedience• Salvation: I have been saved, I am being saved, I will be saved

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Welcome to Time in the Word, a Bible teaching ministry of A Love Outreach. In this episode, Pastor Dave will walk us through Romans chapter 5 with a practical, verse-by-verse reading and discussion. This is a simple Spirit-led time in God's Word—reading the Scriptures and pausing along the way to reflect, explain, and apply what we see. Whether you are new to the Bible or have walked with the Lord for years, our prayer is that this time in the Word would draw you closer to Jesus, strengthen your faith, and deepen your understanding of His truth.

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Welcome to Time in the Word, a Bible teaching ministry of A Love Outreach. In this episode, Pastor Dave will walk us through Romans chapter 4 with a practical, verse-by-verse reading and discussion. This is a simple Spirit-led time in God's Word—reading the Scriptures and pausing along the way to reflect, explain, and apply what we see. Whether you are new to the Bible or have walked with the Lord for years, our prayer is that this time in the Word would draw you closer to Jesus, strengthen your faith, and deepen your understanding of His truth.

Welcome to Time in the Word, a Bible teaching ministry of A Love Outreach. In this episode, Pastor Dave will walk us through Romans chapter 3 with a practical, verse-by-verse reading and discussion. This is a simple Spirit-led time in God's Word—reading the Scriptures and pausing along the way to reflect, explain, and apply what we see. Whether you are new to the Bible or have walked with the Lord for years, our prayer is that this time in the Word would draw you closer to Jesus, strengthen your faith, and deepen your understanding of His truth.

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Catalyst Church NWA Pastor Nate Sweeney (Lead Pastor)

In the first half of this sermon from the end of Romans Chapter 14, we learned more about Paul’s admonition to “pursue peace.” Today, we examine the “things which make for peace” from verse 19. We find peace in God’s word, which teaches us more about the peace that comes from discipleship in Christ. Join...

Catalyst Church NWA Pastor Daniel Tedder (Worship and Missions Pastor)

In this powerful Father's Day message - originally delivered at Weatherly Assembly of God Church, Ken Pounders unpacks the life-changing truths of Romans Chapter 8. Drawing deeply from his own journey and biblical insight, Ken Pounders explores the role of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers, the true meaning of redemption, and what it looks like to move from spiritual immaturity into the "revealing of the sons of God." This episode challenges the Western church's focus on individual relationships with Christ, emphasizing instead the collective destiny of God's people. With relatable illustrations (from personal stories to lost barbecue joints!) and practical application, listeners are encouraged to embrace life empowered by the Holy Spirit—living victoriously and impacting the world around them. Whether you're navigating your own faith journey, seeking hope in the face of addiction, or simply wanting to understand God's heart as a Father, Ken Pounders lays a foundation of hope, purpose, and spiritual maturity in this special message.   Website: https://omainc.org Email: OMADirector2017@gmail.com or priorityev@mac.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/165704310121828/ Website: https://priorityev.info Instagram: instagram.com/bro_ken   Outreach Ministries of Alabama, Inc., PO Box 98 Valhermoso Springs, AL  35775 Phone:   256-778-8096  

Sunday June 21st 7am (pst) / 10am (est) LIVE-Stream Bible Study on Sunday Mornings... Romans 15 1-13: Stronger brothers sacrificing (in the name of LOVE) for the conscience of the weaker brother is part of the promised suffering of the follower of Christ. Rumble Channel: https://rumble.com/c/HisGeneration Watch Video on Youtube: https://youtube.com/live/hUmMHzEuS2Y 

Catalyst Church NWA Pastor Nate Sweeney (Lead Pastor)

Catalyst Church NWA Pastor Scott Tassin (Academic Pastor)