Sinners in the Hands of a __________ God

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Romans 8

This Sunday’s lectionary epistle is perhaps my favorite scripture, Paul’s great gospel summation in Romans 8. While I am presently doing a long lectio continua series through the Apocalypse, here’s a sermon on the text. (It’s ten years old!) I played a clip of Mark Driscoll “preaching” at the top of the sermon (“God hates you,” he screamed). Little did I know then that Driscoll was soon to exemplify, in sad fashion, the point I attempted to preach with this text.

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