Tag: romans
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Love Is in Our Nature
Romans 2:12-16 – 7/9/2026 When gentiles, who do not possess the law, by nature do what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves. Romans 2:14 (NRSVue) The law of the Hebrew Bible, the Torah, is, among other things, a statement of God’s will for God’s people, a set…
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The Ends Do Not Justify the Means
Romans 3:1-8 – 7/7/2026 Why not say (as some people slander us by saying that we say), “Let us do evil so that good may come”? Their judgment is deserved! Romans 3:8 (NRSVue) Good things can come out of evil situations, actions, and choices. It happens all of the time. The outcomes of our choices…
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Paul’s Moral Psychology
Romans 7:7-20 – 7/3/2026 – The Feast of Thomas, the Apostle What then are we to say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not…
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The Spirit and the Letter
Romans 7:1-6 – 7/2/2026 Now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are enslaved in the newness of the [spirit] and not in the oldness of the [letter]. Romans 7:6 (NRSVue with my translation correction) One of the themes of Paul’s letter to the Romans, one…
Dionysus on a Bike 