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Imagine that you quit a job, and then you keep going back to work there. You return to your locker, or your parking space, your cubicle. You log into your computer. You begin answering email (...)

Romans 5:12-21 is a fitting place to start in Lent. Paul reflects on the problem of sin and its answer in God’s grace. At the heart of this passage is Paul’s exploration of both the (...)

Romans 8:12-17 does not give a systematic account of the nature of the Trinity, but it does present a compelling snapshot of what it means for Christians to live in the very life of the (...)

The clarion call of Romans 14:1-12 is captured in a single concept, “hospitality” (14:1a). The Apostle Paul observes that the human condition, in all its form and nature, is marked by wickedness. Consciously, intentionally, and with (...)

In Greek, even more than in English, the word for “flesh” (sarx) points to something different from that to which the word for “body” (soma) points.1 This is certainly true as the apostle Paul uses (...)

This reading is a continuation of Romans 6:1-11, where we discussed theological themes of sin and death in relation to Paul’s teachings on the sacrament of baptism and eschatology.1 Verses 12-23 orient readers toward living (...)

The Apostle Paul does not explain the Trinity — how God is three-in-one and one-in-three — and no systematic explanation is to be found in the other biblical writers, either. Although the passage does use (...)

Paul begins Romans 14 by speaking of the “weak in faith” and in 15:1 he urges “we who are strong” to “put up with the failings of the weak.” Arland Hultgren is probably right to (...)

In Greek, even more than in English, the word for “flesh” (sarx) points to something different from that to which the word for “body” (soma) points. This is certainly true as the apostle Paul uses (...)

Coming on the heels of Paul’s discussion of baptism in Romans 6:1-11, our passage for the Second Sunday after Pentecost serves as a corrective to a potential misunderstanding. Verses 1-11 could be understood as pointing (...)