Coppertop Sermons

Romans 11

Romans 11:1-10: Paul has noted that his fellow Jews have not been responding to the good news about Jesus Christ that they have heard. So has God rejected God’s people? In a phrase that Paul has used often in this letter, “By no means!” Paul uses his own case as a reason to

Romans 9

Romans 9:1-18: Throughout his letter to the Roman Christian community, Paul returns to themes related to Jewish Christians and people of Jewish faith. The Roman Jesus community grew out of the large Jewish population in Rome. For a time, all Jews, including Jewish Christians were expelled from Rome, leaving this Christian community

Romans 8

Romans 8:1-17: In chapter 5, Paul celebrated life in Christ, life in which God’s Spirit and love were poured into our hearts. We come to this life not because we have earned our way in, but because we trust, we have faith in the goodness of God. Chapter 4 described that faith, and

Romans 6

Romans 6:1-14: So light has come into our lives, and we experience this as a gift of God, not something that we “earned” but something that is simply given to us in love. Our task is to open ourselves to the God who wants to pour love into our lives. Well, if all

Romans 4

Romans 4:1-12: Paul has been arguing that while there is something special about the religious heritage of the Jewish Christians, when it comes right down to it, both the Jews and the Gentiles who are now a part of the Roman Jesus community, are on equal footing before God. All have sinned, Paul