INVITATION

I want to invite you to take a trek—A Trek through Romans: A Companion Reader. 

The title implies two very specific aims. 

First that reading through Romans is a bit of an expedition. My goal is to walk with you along the path. 

Second, like many who make a pilgrimage together, there is banter and discussion along the way. Identifying this booklet as “a companion reader” is in one way meant to highlight that this is some banter from one who has walked along this centuries-old route. It is not meant to be a scholarly work or commentary, but rather an aide of sorts. 

To that end, what follows is highly dependent on those who have done the very difficult work, slowly sorting each and every verse, you might say, examining each and every step. 

Know that I am leaning heavily into John Stott’s The Bible Speaks Today: Romans commentary, as well as his work Through the Bible: Through the Year. Further resources include NT Wright’s Paul for Everyone: Romans and others who through their sermons and dialogs have aided me in my own steps. 

I am enormously grateful to Ms. Karen Coulson doing the painstaking work of forming the thoughts and ideas into a coherent form. 

Let’s take this trek. Let’s spend a mere 17 days with God’s Word.

8For my thoughts are not your thoughts,    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,    so are my ways higher than your ways    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven    and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,    giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;    it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,    and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

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