Romans 6

False security is a lovely, loathsome thing.

Romans 6:3 is strange. A lot of pastors have it memorized.

I preached a word of judgment. The stranger in the back row heard grace.

Baptism is about dying with Christ. Why don't more churches talk about this?

Wright tells a great story. Would the apostle recognize it?

Cheap resistance is like cheap grace. It risks very little.

It's a beautiful Sunday morning, until the pastor breaks the mood.

If Paul is right, we are living fantasy lives. Anytime we live as though power conquers and wealth protects, we live a fantasy. Anytime we live like death wins, we live a fantasy.

Paul tells us about a future that has already happened—yet we live not only like it hasn’t happened yet but like we don’t think it ever really will.

In this life, sanctification is gradual and difficult. Why would it be different in the life to come?

Reconciliation requires relocation. To see the effects of our food choices, we have to get close to the land.

Remembering our baptism enables us to step out of our old life, at least for a moment.

"The walking dead.” These are the words of African-American soldier Leon Bass as he described the horror he saw when Americans liberated prisoners in the Buchenwald prison camp in April 1945. Today some call confirmed drug addicts “the walking dead.” Then there’s the book/film Dead Man Walking—which describes many of us spiritually.

We are still free to choose whose slaves we will be.