In Romans 3 and 4 the Bible tells us exactly what God has done to put things right in Jesus Christ. You can put it in a phrase: we’re justified by faith through the blood of Christ. We look now at one of those terms: faith. What is this saving faith...
In Romans 3, we have the heart of Paul’s message about what God has done to put the world right in Jesus Christ. Christianity alone says that God prepares a perfect righteous record through Jesus Christ and gives it freely to you. So you’re saved no...
In Romans 1 through 4, Paul summarizes the story of the Bible. And here, in the last half of chapter 3 and into chapter 4, we have Paul’s most essential summary of what God has done to put the world right. Three phrases are repeated and brought into...
Romans 1 through 4 gives Paul’s version of the entire biblical story, also called the gospel. In this passage, we come to the end of Paul’s analysis of what’s wrong with the human race. When I was a new believer, this was a tough passage for me. It...
We’re tracing the storyline of the entire Bible. We started in Genesis, where we learn what’s wrong with the human race, and we’ve come to Romans, where we learn what God has done about it through Jesus Christ. Here at the beginning of Romans 2, Pau...
We’re in a series tracing the storyline of the Bible: what’s wrong with the human race, what God has done about it, and how it’s all going to turn out. We’ve begun to look at Romans 1 through 4, where Paul gives us perhaps the single most comprehensi...
We’re tracing the storyline of the Bible, and we looked first at what it says went wrong with the human race. Now we look at Romans 1 through 4, at perhaps the single most comprehensive place where we learn what God has done to make things right. Sch...
We’re in a series tracing the single storyline of the Bible—the single story that tells us what’s wrong with the human race, what God has done about it, and how history is going to turn out in the end. We’ve started by looking at the beginning of th...
The Bible’s simple answer to the question “What’s wrong with the human race?” is sin. Contemporary people cringe when we use the word sin because we don’t like it. Then what vocabulary will you use to talk about war atrocities, massive corruption, s...
The Bible is a single story telling us what is wrong with the human race, what God is going to do about it, and how it’s all going to turn out. Genesis 3 and 4 give us answers to what’s wrong with the human race and why the human race is so prone to...
The Bible is not a series of disconnected stories, each one with a little moral for how to live, but it’s actually primarily a single story about what went wrong with the human race and what will put it right. Figuring out what went wrong with the h...
You can’t understand the central storyline of the Bible unless you understand something about marriage. The Bible begins with a marriage in Genesis 2, and at the end, in Revelation, it ends with a marriage and the wedding supper of the Lamb. In some...
If you stand back a little bit from Genesis 1 and 2, you’ll see that perhaps the main thing the first two chapters of the Bible are about is work, job and vocation. We’re told in Genesis 2 that God sends the human race into the world to work. He put...
We’re in a series tracing the single storyline of the whole Bible. So we’re actually looking at the history of the universe. Today we get to this passage about how God made us in his image and likeness. This immediately brings up a huge and crucial...
The Bible is about how the world was made and ruined, how it was rescued through Jesus Christ, and how someday it’s going to be remade into a new heavens and new earth. In order to trace out that storyline, we’re first taking a look at Genesis. In G...
