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20 mins read|10/23/22
Epistle: Romans 3:19-28 (Reformation Sunday: Series C)
The phrase “works of the law” has an antithesis when it comes to righteousness—faith. What keeping the Law could not do, the gift of faith does. -
10 mins read|02/27/22
Epistle: Romans 10:8b-13 (Lent 1: Series C)
Nearly two thousand years after Paul scribbled out these lines, the only reason “we” are here, reading Paul’s magnum opus together, is that we are inheritors of the promise Paul sees in the paradox. -
10 mins read|01/02/22
Epistle: Romans 6:1-11 (The Baptism of Our Lord: Series C)
Paul is thinking of the cross and empty tomb, but the liturgical calendar places us at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, not the end: Jesus standing waist deep in the Jordan River. -
14 mins read|03/03/19
Epistle: Romans 10: 8b-13 (Lent 1: Series C)
The word of faith means the word that declares us righteous and gives us Christ’s own righteousness as a gift. At the start of the Passion Season, these texts call us deny ourselves and our pride that comes by our obedience to the Law, and to cast all of our sins, failures, and weaknesses onto Christ, to trust Him alone for our salvation. -
23 mins read|01/07/19
Epistle: Romans 6:1-11 (Epiphany 1: Series C)
Having Romans 6 as the Epistle for the Baptism of our Lord, and paired with Luke’s account of Jesus’ baptism and Isaiah’s prophetically rich baptismal language in Isaiah 43, allows preaches to proclaim Romans 6 in a more appropriate liturgical context. It could only be better, were someone in your congregation to be baptized on this day. If that’s your situation, the sermon will almost write itself.
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