John shares how Paul’s last passages in Romans and our Thanksgiving holiday have much in common.

God designed His people, His family, with differences to help us understand and learn that, at the end of the day, there is only one Lord and His way.

Together (as a family) we are to live open, loving lives, aggressively loving our enemies so that real love will conquer evil.

In Romans 11, we find that God’s kindness plus God’s sternness equals God’s mercy.

Paul in Romans 10 answers the question of how we are saved by drawing parallels from Deuteronomy chapter 30. He explains how there is only one way to be saved.

Through Romans chapter 9, John teaches us how our lives can be very similar to the history of the Israelites. As we rebel, God never leaves us and continues to mold us into His image, as we allow Him to do so.

John shares about how change really happens in our lives. If we start following Jesus, some of us experience amazing, radical changes and some of us don’t. What’s up with that?

This week John covers Romans 4 and Paul’s call for us to enter the family of Christ and its ambitious goal to make the world perfect.

As we continue our series on Romans, John dives into the problem of sin. How sin is killing us. How understanding sin in our lives can lead to really good stuff.

In the second half of Romans Chapter 1, Paul explains how we desperately need the good news of Jesus Christ. John teaches us how God uses His wrath not to destroy us but to lovingly bring us back to Jesus Christ.