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The Power of the Gospel: A Year in Romans
The book of Romans is the Bible’s most comprehensive summary of salvation by Jesus Christ. Beloved for its profound theological depths, this letter of Paul’s has captured the minds and warmed the hearts of Christians throughout history. It remains a favorite New Testament epistle for its rich presentation of the gospel, the power of God to redeem people from sin and transform them into the likeness of His Son.
This daily devotional lets you spend a year in Romans with Dr. R.C. Sproul as your guide. The fruit of deep study and decades of teaching, his sermons are presented here in a unique format with accompanying applications from each reading. Set out on this yearlong study as you seek to walk in the power of the gospel, one day at a time.
This daily devotional lets you spend a year in Romans with Dr. R.C. Sproul as your guide. The fruit of deep study and decades of teaching, his sermons are presented here in a unique format with accompanying applications from each reading. Set out on this yearlong study as you seek to walk in the power of the gospel, one day at a time.
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Published December 10, 2024
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R.C. Sproul
675 books1,980 followersDr. R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, an international Christian discipleship organization located near Orlando, Fla. He was founding pastor of Saint Andrew’s Chapel in Sanford, Fla., first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Ligonier Ministries began in 1971 as the Ligonier Valley Study Center in Ligonier, Pa. In an effort to respond more effectively to the growing demand for Dr. Sproul’s teachings and the ministry’s other educational resources, the general offices were moved to Orlando in 1984, and the ministry was renamed.
Dr. Sproul’s radio program, Renewing Your Mind, is still broadcast daily on hundreds of radio stations around the world and can also be heard online. Dr. Sproul produced hundreds of lecture series and recorded numerous video series on subjects such as the history of philosophy, theology, Bible study, apologetics, and Christian living.
He contributed dozens of articles to national evangelical publications, spoke at conferences, churches, and academic institutions around the world, and wrote more than one hundred books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, and Everyone’s a Theologian. He signed the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy and wrote a commentary on that document. He also served as general editor of the Reformation Study Bible, previously known as the New Geneva Study Bible.
Dr. Sproul had a distinguished academic teaching career at various colleges and seminaries, including Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando and Jackson, Miss. He was ordained as a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.
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December 29, 2025
Love me some Sproul, he scratches my theological itch every time. This book was taken from his exposition on the book of Romans, but split up into 6 daily readings for each week of the year. It was pretty handy and kept me engaged with a devotional format which was new for me. Also had some very specific verses line up around the time of our daughter’s birth (with subsequent complications) that really offered a measure of comfort and strength.
December 9, 2025
This devotional book is based on the preaching ministry of R.C. Sproul at Saint Andrews Chapel in Sanford, Florida. Portions of the devotional were previously published under the title Romans: An Expositional Commentary. The book includes readings and an “Application” for Monday through Saturday each week of the year. I used this book as a part of my devotional reading in 2025.
Below are 30 helpful quotes from the book:
• The gospel is under attack in the church today. I cannot stress enough how important it is to get the gospel right and to understand both the objective aspect of the person and work of Jesus and the subjective dimension of how we benefit from that by faith alone.
• People say that God is a God of love, not a God of wrath, but that is not the God of Scripture. The God of love revealed in Scripture is also angry with sin. He is the God of justice, righteousness, and holiness.
• The idea that people are basically good strikes at the heart of the gospel. Every sin, even the most “minor” sin, is rebellion against God and a violation of His law.
• Our justification is by faith alone, but our rewards in heaven will be distributed according to our works.
• Making a verbal confession of faith is no guarantee of salvation. What is in the heart determines our redemption.
• No one seeks after Christ until he has first been found by Christ—that begins the seeking of the kingdom.
• The good news of the gospel is that God pronounces people just, astonishingly enough, while they are still sinners because of the righteousness of Christ.
• Our faith is not the meritorious basis for our justification. Rather, Christ and His righteousness alone merit our justification. Faith, however, is the means by which we take hold of His righteousness.
• Christ as our substitute took upon Himself the wrath that we deserve, to pay the penalty that was due for our guilt to satisfy the demands of God’s justice.
• If all He did was maintain His righteousness without extending the imputation of that righteousness to us, He would not be the justifier. He is both just and justifier, which is the marvel of the gospel.
• The sacraments of the church are an important part of a vibrant faith because they are means of grace, reminders to us of our justification that provide us with greater measures of assurance.
• The purpose of worship is to ascribe glory to God, to honor and revere Him, to adore Him in the excellence of His being.
• Be sure that when doubts assail you, you rehearse truth to yourself. The great remedy to false doctrine is true doctrine, for which you must go to God’s Word.
• The very essence of the gospel is that someone else’s righteousness counts for us.
• The only way that we can have any assurance of salvation is by looking at grace, not at our performance or achievements. That is why we have to get justification by faith in our bloodstream every minute of every day.
• The primary business of the Christian life is the quest for righteousness.
• What our morality can never achieve, God can achieve. What our behavior and performance are incapable of attaining, God can attain for us. That is the gospel. We cannot; He can. It is that simple.
• Remember that we are never alone in our suffering and that we will one day experience glory in a manner like Christ. Our present suffering will be incomparable to what we will enjoy on that day.
• When the Spirit, who searches the deep things of God and knows our souls and the mind of the Father, helps us to pray as we ought, we begin to pray according to the will of God.
• We have nothing to fear from the afflictions we have to endure in this present life, because all these things are every moment working together under the sovereignty of God for good. If we love Him, good is working for the believer.
• Personal, redemptive, spiritual knowledge of God comes only as a result of the work of the Holy Spirit within our hearts and minds.
• Justification is not just an abstract doctrine, and we must never negotiate it. It is the very heart and soul of the gospel.
• God reserves to Himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.
• I venture to say that at least 80 percent of Christian church members in our country believe that they can get to heaven through their good works.
• The gospel is proclaimed universally, but its benefits are offered only to believers, those who hear the Word and are brought to faith in and through the Word.
• When the Lord God exercises His redeeming call on someone, it is final; He never takes it back.
• Human life is so sacred that if you rise up without just cause and kill your neighbor, you forfeit all rights and privileges to your own life.
• The principle is easy: we are always to obey the authorities over us unless those authorities command us to do something that God forbids, or forbids us from doing something that God commands.
• Life in the kingdom is about loving the things of God and loving those for whom Christ died. That is the recipe for mature Christian unity.
• We must be acquainted with true doctrine to spot false doctrine.
Below are 30 helpful quotes from the book:
• The gospel is under attack in the church today. I cannot stress enough how important it is to get the gospel right and to understand both the objective aspect of the person and work of Jesus and the subjective dimension of how we benefit from that by faith alone.
• People say that God is a God of love, not a God of wrath, but that is not the God of Scripture. The God of love revealed in Scripture is also angry with sin. He is the God of justice, righteousness, and holiness.
• The idea that people are basically good strikes at the heart of the gospel. Every sin, even the most “minor” sin, is rebellion against God and a violation of His law.
• Our justification is by faith alone, but our rewards in heaven will be distributed according to our works.
• Making a verbal confession of faith is no guarantee of salvation. What is in the heart determines our redemption.
• No one seeks after Christ until he has first been found by Christ—that begins the seeking of the kingdom.
• The good news of the gospel is that God pronounces people just, astonishingly enough, while they are still sinners because of the righteousness of Christ.
• Our faith is not the meritorious basis for our justification. Rather, Christ and His righteousness alone merit our justification. Faith, however, is the means by which we take hold of His righteousness.
• Christ as our substitute took upon Himself the wrath that we deserve, to pay the penalty that was due for our guilt to satisfy the demands of God’s justice.
• If all He did was maintain His righteousness without extending the imputation of that righteousness to us, He would not be the justifier. He is both just and justifier, which is the marvel of the gospel.
• The sacraments of the church are an important part of a vibrant faith because they are means of grace, reminders to us of our justification that provide us with greater measures of assurance.
• The purpose of worship is to ascribe glory to God, to honor and revere Him, to adore Him in the excellence of His being.
• Be sure that when doubts assail you, you rehearse truth to yourself. The great remedy to false doctrine is true doctrine, for which you must go to God’s Word.
• The very essence of the gospel is that someone else’s righteousness counts for us.
• The only way that we can have any assurance of salvation is by looking at grace, not at our performance or achievements. That is why we have to get justification by faith in our bloodstream every minute of every day.
• The primary business of the Christian life is the quest for righteousness.
• What our morality can never achieve, God can achieve. What our behavior and performance are incapable of attaining, God can attain for us. That is the gospel. We cannot; He can. It is that simple.
• Remember that we are never alone in our suffering and that we will one day experience glory in a manner like Christ. Our present suffering will be incomparable to what we will enjoy on that day.
• When the Spirit, who searches the deep things of God and knows our souls and the mind of the Father, helps us to pray as we ought, we begin to pray according to the will of God.
• We have nothing to fear from the afflictions we have to endure in this present life, because all these things are every moment working together under the sovereignty of God for good. If we love Him, good is working for the believer.
• Personal, redemptive, spiritual knowledge of God comes only as a result of the work of the Holy Spirit within our hearts and minds.
• Justification is not just an abstract doctrine, and we must never negotiate it. It is the very heart and soul of the gospel.
• God reserves to Himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.
• I venture to say that at least 80 percent of Christian church members in our country believe that they can get to heaven through their good works.
• The gospel is proclaimed universally, but its benefits are offered only to believers, those who hear the Word and are brought to faith in and through the Word.
• When the Lord God exercises His redeeming call on someone, it is final; He never takes it back.
• Human life is so sacred that if you rise up without just cause and kill your neighbor, you forfeit all rights and privileges to your own life.
• The principle is easy: we are always to obey the authorities over us unless those authorities command us to do something that God forbids, or forbids us from doing something that God commands.
• Life in the kingdom is about loving the things of God and loving those for whom Christ died. That is the recipe for mature Christian unity.
• We must be acquainted with true doctrine to spot false doctrine.
October 6, 2025
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” ~Romans 1:16-17
Is it any wonder that this Roman devotional bears a title reminding us of "The Power of the Gospel?"
Daily readings will take you through the book of Romans with commentary by the legendary R.C. Sproul.
Each week brings new insights into the treasures of this doctrine-rich book.
Here are five of my favorite verses from Romans (in addition to the above):
🌟Romans 3:21-25a ~But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.
🌟Romans 5:1-2 ~ Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
🌟Romans 8:1-2 ~ Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice[d] in hope of the glory of God.
🌟Romans 8:26 ~ Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
🌟Romans 8:31-32 ~ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
If you have a desire to understand the gospel more fully, this book will take you there day by day.
Here are the last words of Application:
Scripture is special in many ways. Paul wrote this letter to the Romans, but it was also by God's inspiration intended for the church in every place throughout history. . . . Revel in this blessing that is yours today.
Is it any wonder that this Roman devotional bears a title reminding us of "The Power of the Gospel?"
Daily readings will take you through the book of Romans with commentary by the legendary R.C. Sproul.
Each week brings new insights into the treasures of this doctrine-rich book.
Here are five of my favorite verses from Romans (in addition to the above):
🌟Romans 3:21-25a ~But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.
🌟Romans 5:1-2 ~ Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
🌟Romans 8:1-2 ~ Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice[d] in hope of the glory of God.
🌟Romans 8:26 ~ Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
🌟Romans 8:31-32 ~ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
If you have a desire to understand the gospel more fully, this book will take you there day by day.
Here are the last words of Application:
Scripture is special in many ways. Paul wrote this letter to the Romans, but it was also by God's inspiration intended for the church in every place throughout history. . . . Revel in this blessing that is yours today.
December 28, 2025
Such a wonderful book but in the style of a devotional. Therefore it is in little snippets that take two minutes to read. It goes through the book of Roman’s. It is a light study . Yes there are theological terms and elementary Greek that you get to learn, but it’s not academic or overwhelming. It is the threading of the needle thru the Book of Romans. I don’t expect a seminary student or even a mature Christian to learn anything new, but rather develop an appetite and a desire to dig deeper.
December 24, 2025
Outstanding, I’ve been greatly blessed.
December 27, 2025
What a wonderful year-long marination in the book of Romans!
April 9, 2025
A truly wonderful year long devotional through Romans
April 13, 2025
I listened to this on Audible. Whoever cast this reader was 💯 spot on. Outstanding book by an outstanding theologian.
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