The Greatest Thing in the World: An Overview of Romans 1-7 …
Because of Christ there is no condemnation, only deep transformation.
Romans 1
The Author of the Greatest Letter Ever Written …
First in a Series of Messages on Romans
The Treasure of Faith in the Life of the Church …
The great aim of our ministry should be the same as Paul's: to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of God's glory.
The Gospel in the Church for the Obedience of Faith through Spiritual Gifts …
Grace makes you a debtor, not to God, but to others who need grace.
Proud People Don't Say Thanks …
The human heart hates the truth that creation teaches because it is too humbling.
Not Ashamed of the Gospel …
The gospel elicits shaming behavior in those who will not believe it and it gives freedom from shame to those who do.
The Wrath of God Against Ungodliness and Unrighteousness …
How is the wrath of God being revealed in this present age?
The Wrath of God Against Holding Down the Truth …
The reason the mind evades, distorts, and suppresses the truth of God is mainly because of our moral, not mental, deficiency.
The Other Dark Exchange: Homosexuality, Part 1 …
God means for the beauty of worship to be dramatized in the right ordering of our sexual lives.
The Other Dark Exchange: Homosexuality, Part 2 …
John Piper offers seven points of counsel to those with homosexual desires, and five to their parents.
Final Judgment: Eternal Life vs. Wrath and Fury …
Every responsible person, on the basis of their actions and attitudes, will meet the final judgment of God.
The Perils of Disapproving God …
Every form of evil ultimately comes from failing to know, approve, and love God above all things.
Doing and Endorsing Evil …
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the perfect and only remedy for what people already know about themselves.
Romans 2
God's Response to Hypocrisy: Kindness and Judgment …
God's justice does not demand that he punish us for our sins immediately. His kindness leads him to forbear and to be patient with us, to a point.
The Effect of Hypocrisy, Part 1 …
Dishonoring God
The Effect of Hypocrisy, Part 2 …
Dishonoring God
Romans 3
Let God Be True Though Every Man a Liar …
Who are they whose condemnation is just? Those who play games with the Word of God.
Why God Inspired Hard Texts …
What are some implications of the fact that God has founded Christianity on a book that has difficult passages?
Jesus Is Precious Because He Removes Our Guilt …
Turn away from all the intellectual, physical, and religious tactics the world uses to evade its guilt, and rest in Jesus.
Mouths Closed and All the World Accountable to God …
Palm Sunday
Christianity is not a narrow, provincial, or tribal religion. It declares things that have to do with the whole world.
How Is It Right to Justify the Ungodly? …
We unseat judges with indignation who acquit the guilty. Our moral sensibility is outraged when wrong and guilt are given legal sanction. Yet at the heart of our gospel stands the sentence: God justifies the ungodly who trust in him. God acquits the guilty. That is the gospel! But how can it be right for God to do that?
God Vindicated His Righteousness in the Death of Christ …
God put sent Christ to die in order to demonstrate his righteousness.
God Justified the Ungodly …
Being justified means being forgiven, being reckoned righteous, being loved by God, and being secured by God forever.
The Demonstration of God's Righteousness, Part 1 …
Justification and Mother's Day
Justification by Faith Is the End of Boasting …
Boasting matters to Paul because it is the outward form of the inward moral corruption that lies behind all the evils and miseries of the world.
Justification by Faith Establishes the Law …
The moral law in the Old Testament is not a ladder for climbing, but a track for riding in the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Reformed Faith and Racial Harmony …
Racial Harmony Sunday
Where racial harmony doesn’t flourish, the cross of Christ is dishonored and the sovereignty of God is obscured.
One God and One Salvation for All the Nations …
God is one, and everyone he justifies is justified in the same way. Therefore he is God not only over the Jews but over all peoples.
Romans 4
How Do Circumcision and Baptism Correspond? …
The way God constituted his people under the old covenant is different than how he does it today.
The Children of Abraham Are Heirs of the World …
What does it mean to be an heir of the world?
The Faith - Grace - Certainty Connection …
Your faith is called into being out of nothing. That is the meaning of grace and the reason why God can guarantee his promises to you.
Battling Unbelief at Bethlehem …
Fight against sin by fighting against unbelief in the promises of God.
Romans 5
Our Hope: The Glory of God! …
If there is any wonder or awe or admiration or fame or praise or applause, it belongs to the glory of God. For all other glory is like grass compared to God's.
Called to Suffer and Rejoice: For Holiness and Hope …
God has a purpose for every obstacle and every frustration and every pain and every affliction that comes into our lives.
The Depth of Christ's Love: Its Undeserving Objects …
God loved us while we were enemies. God sacrificed his Son for us while we were enemies.
Let Us Exult in the Hope of the Glory of God! …
Whatever else you do or say or feel, of this you can be certain: God wills that you rejoice in the hope of seeing his glory.
We Exult in Our Tribulations …
In this world you will have trouble, but in Christ it will only increase your joy and hope.
Help the Children Love the Different People …
Racial Harmony Sunday
Eight ways to help children love those who don't look like them.
Joy Purchased …
The death of Jesus Christ is the only way that any of us can escape the righteous wrath of God and find peace with God.
We Exult in God Through Our Lord Jesus Christ …
The biblical portrait of Jesus must be the essential content of your joy in God.
The Fatal Disobedience of Adam and the Triumphant Obedience of Christ …
We are sinful by nature because of our father, Adam, but we can claim the righteousness of our Savior, Jesus.
The Triumph of Grace through Righteousness …
God's purpose in giving the law was so that, in the end, grace would reign through Christ's righteousness on our behalf.
Romans 6
Are We to Continue in Sin That Grace Might Increase? …
Believers are commanded to become in practice what we are in Christ: dead to sin and alive to God.
Christ and Those in Him Will Never Die Again …
Easter Sunday
What if it's true that Christ rose from the dead?
