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Romans pt 6: The Weak and Strong (Ro 14: 1-10)

Without a good understanding of these two terms, no healing work can be done here, so let's start with the one central question for this chapter: “Who are the strong and the Weak?” Read more…

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Romans pt 5: Church Patterned after the World. (Ro 12:1-6)

The “pattern of the world” is the phrase that Paul uses for what the Romans would call “The Cursus Honorum.”

The path of honor required selfishness, boasting about your abilities and accomplishments, putting yourself first, striving to rise above others, and boasting about both what you have and have accomplished.

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Romans pt 4 – When Things Go Dark (Rom 13:11-14).

in times of darkness, in times of rationing food and touch decisions we might be more tempted to flip that switch; we might turn to stockpiling instead of generosity; we might turn to killing over providing; we might put our trust in violence and the love of ourselves rather than peacemaking and the love our enemies.

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