Romans 8:18-39 | The Hope of Glory
Last week we started Romans 8, about our new life in Christ by the Spirit. But what if our experience of this life isn’t positive right now? What if it’s actually marked by suffering more than victory? What does say about our salvation?
Romans 8:1-17 | Life by the Spirit of Christ
In Romans 7 we heard how our human nature is wrecked by sin. We can’t do the good we want. Instead we do things we hate. But this week we start Romans 8. Where we hear how Jesus saves us out of that by his Spirit. How does that work?
Romans 7 | Law; What Is It Good For?
In Romans 6 we’ve heard Paul say that because of Christ’s death for us, we now have a new life of living for God. This week Romans 7 raises the question: What’s the place of God’s law in this new life? Do we live for God by trying really hard to obey to his law? […]
Romans 6 – Slaves to Righteousness
Last week we heard the start of Romans 6, that we’re united with Christ, so we should consider ourselves dead to sin and alive to God. But what should we actually DO with our lives now? Do we just sit there trying really hard not to sin anymore? Sam will take us through the rest […]
Romans 6 – The Hope of Holiness
We’ve heard so much in Romans 1-5 about how totally forigiving God is because Jesus died for our sins. As Philip takes us into Romans 6, the question is: with all this great forgiveness on offer, why wouldn’t we just keep sinning?
Romans 5:12-21 | Great Grace
We continue our series on Paul’s letter to the church in Rome, all about the good news of Jesus.As we continue in chapter 5, we see just HOW CERTAIN is the HOPE we have in Jesus.As we see all the brokenness of this world, Paul will say the salvation of Jesus is even bigger!
Bridge of Hope
When the hardest things in life come at us, we can feel shaken. But in Romans 5, we get a picture of the clear and certain hope that we have in Christ, anchored in our past justification and our future hope of glory. Philip helps us to see the bridge that we stand on, anchored […]
One Faith, One Family (Romans 4)
After hearing the great promise of righteousness by faith in Christ, Paul goes back to see how this was true even before Christ, looking to Abraham as the key example. Jeremy helps us to see the power of faith to give us life before God.