When to Obey, When to Resist
You'll work through a real question that Christians avoid: when Romans 13 says submit to governing authorities, and the government is actively harming vulnerable people, what are you actually supposed to do?
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You'll work through a real question that Christians avoid: when Romans 13 says submit to governing authorities, and the government is actively harming vulnerable people, what are you actually supposed to do?
You'll hear how a 16th-century monk's encounter with Romans 3 unleashed a movement still unfinished today, and what it means for you to carry that same Word into a world that constantly shapes the church more than the church shapes it.
You'll hear what baptism actually does beyond the water and the ceremony, and why Paul's claim in Romans 6 that you died and rose with Christ is meant to reorient your whole life, not just mark a milestone.
You'll hear how Paul's letter to the Romans is less a theology textbook and more an urgent plea for people who are different from each other to actually live together, and what that means for why community is so hard to build today.
You'll hear why the early church fought over food, and what that ancient conflict reveals about how you treat fellow believers whose faith looks different from yours today.
You'll hear why Paul's call to 'present your bodies as a living sacrifice' means offering your entire, undivided self to God, not just the parts you're comfortable surrendering, and what that total offering might cost you.
You'll hear a frank walk through one of the Bible's most disputed passages, and come away with a clearer picture of what Paul actually meant by 'all Israel will be saved,' and why the answer matters for how Christians think about Jewish people, Palestinian Arabs, and who belongs in God's family.
You'll hear how the word 'end' in 'Christ is the end of the law' carries two meanings at once, and why understanding both can free you from the guilt and shame that religious rules so often leave behind.
You'll hear how Paul dismantles two competing visions of God's faithfulness — one shaped like a megaphone, one like a bow tie — and why which story you're living out of changes everything about how you read Romans 9's hard claims about election, mercy, and justice.
You'll hear why Paul's famous list of things that cannot separate us from God's love isn't just triumphant poetry, but a direct answer to real accusation, real suffering, and real lament, and what that means for the hardest weeks of your life.
You'll hear why trying harder to follow the rules keeps failing you, and how giving up control to the Spirit is the actual path to the freedom you're looking for.
You'll hear why the Christian life begins with a kind of dying, and how that changes the way you face both sin and physical death.
You'll hear how Paul's repeated use of one word, 'dominion,' reframes what salvation actually means: not just a debt erased, but a transfer of power from death's reign to grace's reign, with you restored to a role you were always meant to have.
You'll come away with a clearer picture of what faith actually is: not a feeling you have to force, but a growing conviction that God keeps his word, even when you don't keep yours.
You'll discover how one untranslated Greek word connects the Ark of the Covenant to Jesus, and why that connection changes what it means to say God forgives you.
You'll hear why knowing the rules and even preaching them to others can leave you further from God than you think, and what Paul says actually matters instead.
You'll come away understanding why the Bible's talk of God's wrath isn't a contradiction of God's love, and what it means that Paul says God sometimes simply lets people have what they insist on.
You'll hear why two words, 'righteousness of God' versus 'righteousness from God,' split the church five centuries ago and still shape how you understand whether faith is something you earn or something that comes to you. You'll also sit with the honest question of why genuinely good news is so easy to reject when accepting it means giving up the identity you've built.
You'll hear why Martin Luther's stubborn refusal to back down still matters, and how the Reformation insight that you cannot work your way to God is both harder to accept and more freeing than it sounds.