by Greg Dietrich | Feb 25, 2020 | Apply, Gospel
Romans 8 can be called “the Holy Spirit chapter” in this letter because Paul is so intent to describe the work of the Spirit that he names him 15 times in the first 17 verses. Eric focused on everything the Holy Spirit does in this chapter. The Holy Spirit...
by Greg Dietrich | Feb 18, 2020 | Apply, Gospel
Eric reminded us on Sunday that studying Romans is like filling up a bowl of Grandma’s stew; all the good stuff is at the bottom. As we stirred up Romans 8, we saw that through what God has done in Christ, the Holy Spirit gives life and creates an entirely new...
by Greg Dietrich | Feb 11, 2020 | Apply, Gospel
On Sunday we dived in to Romans 8, where Paul isn’t simply providing a water hose to put out the fire of condemnation in our lives, but instead wants to revolutionize how we see life in this world. There is no condemnation left for us because no condemnation...
by Greg Dietrich | Feb 4, 2020 | Apply, Gospel
This Sunday we wrestled with the frustrating, but very common, experience that Paul describes in Romans 7. Why do we do the thing we don’t want to do? As Eric noted, we often find ourselves looking back at situations or experiences saying to ourselves, “I...
by Greg Dietrich | Jan 28, 2020 | Apply, Gospel
On Sunday we took a closer look at sanctification: what it is, how it works, and how we pursue sanctification. We saw that God makes us holy through a cooperative process in which the Spirit produces fruit in us who have already been declared saints in order to...
by Greg Dietrich | Jan 21, 2020 | Apply, Gospel
On Sunday we looked at how the gospel fundamentally changes the nature, power for, and motivation of our obedience to Christ as we now bear fruit for him. Since believers have been set free from sin (Romans 6) and set free from the law of Moses (Romans 7), we are now...
