Romans
27 articles that work with Romans, in order through the book. Each one lists the passages it cites.
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March 18, 2025 · Under the Hood
"I Knew Something Was Wrong. I Just Kept Driving."
Ignoring your conscience works like ignoring a warning light: small problems become big ones. Why that inner alarm is a gift, and how to start dealing.
Passages: 1:212:15
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December 30, 2024 · Under the Hood
The Diagnostic: What God's Law Is Actually For
What is the purpose of the law? Romans 3:20 says it shows us the problem. Like a mechanic's diagnostic, it tells the truth so the repair can start.
Passages: 3:20
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January 6, 2025 · Full Service
The Problem with Charity
Dignity in serving the poor starts with how you see people. Why the helper-and-helped posture damages people, and how to look across instead of down.
Passages: 3:21–263:22–23
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February 10, 2025 · Under the Hood
"I'm a Pretty Good Person" and Other Fault Codes
Am I a good person? Christianity's answer isn't what most people expect. Why comparing yourself to others misses the real standard, and why that's good news.
Passages: 3:23
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October 21, 2024 · Under the Hood
Why No Perfect Car Has Ever Rolled Into Our Garage
What does the Bible say about human nature? A pastor who runs a free car repair ministry explains: a good design, a real problem, and real hope.
Passages: 3:23
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April 19, 2026 · Full Service
How to Avoid Volunteer Burnout
Volunteer burnout in church often hits the most faithful people first. Four things that keep service sustainable, for volunteers and the leaders who lead them.
Passages: 5:3–4
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July 18, 2025 · Under the Hood
Why Did Jesus Die on the Cross? Free Repairs Still Have a Bill
Why did Jesus die on the cross? A plain answer from a church that fixes cars for free: every repair has a bill, and someone has to pay it.
Passages: 5:86:23
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February 17, 2025 · Full Service
Overflow, Not Obligation
"We love because he first loved us" is the most important sentence for understanding why Christians serve. Here is why overflow outlasts obligation.
Passages: 5:8
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November 19, 2024 · Living the Lord's Prayer
The Gospel Explained with a Trip to the Mechanic
The gospel explained simply, in three stops you already know from any repair shop: the diagnostic, the bill, and the receipt.
Passages: 5:8
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October 14, 2024 · Living the Lord's Prayer
What Does "Our Father" Mean If Your Dad Hurt You?
If "father" is a painful word for you, the first line of the Lord's Prayer can feel like a wall. Here is how God as Father speaks to a father wound.
Passages: 5:88:15
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Giving Account · Chapter 9 companion
Giving Your Final Account in Installments
Every believer will give account before Christ. For the man who has been walking in the light, that day is not a threat. Why honest weekly confession is rehearsal for it.
Passages: 8:114:10–12
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May 10, 2026 · Giving Account
Romans 14:12 and the Final Account
"Each of us will give an account of himself to God." What Romans 14:12 meant in its setting, and why the final account frees men from judging each other.
Passages: 8:1Chapter 1414:1–1214:12
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February 22, 2026 · Giving Account
After a Fall: The First Conversation
Confessing a relapse is often harder than the first confession. How to have the first conversation after a fall, and how brothers should receive it.
Passages: 8:1
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September 18, 2025 · Giving Account
How to Run a 30-Minute Accountability Call
A simple accountability group format for busy men: five men, thirty minutes, one honest account each, and a brother who answers every one.
Passages: 8:1
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January 29, 2025 · Giving Account
Who Hears the Pastor's Account?
Accountability for pastors usually means oversight. But a pastor has his own account to give, and someone should be hearing it every week.
Passages: 8:114:12
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October 18, 2025
What the Bible Says About Speaking in Tongues
What tongues are, the three ways the gift shows up in Scripture, why no one is required to speak in tongues, and the guardrails Paul gives the church.
Passages: 8:9
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October 11, 2025
Filled with the Spirit: Indwelling, Fruit, Gifts, and Power for Ministry
How the Spirit worked in the Old Testament and the New, why every believer has him from salvation, and why we still ask for fresh filling for ministry.
Passages: 8:912:6–8
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November 7, 2025 · Under the Hood
Handing Over the Keys: What Is Repentance and Faith?
What is repentance and faith? Two church words explained in plain language, using the simplest moment at any repair shop: handing over your keys.
Passages: 10:9
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January 31, 2026 · Full Service
Worship with a Wrench: When Work Becomes Worship
Is work as worship just a nice metaphor? Romans 12:1 says your ordinary, hands-on service is real worship, as real as anything on a Sunday morning.
Passages: 12:1
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February 27, 2026 · Living the Lord's Prayer
Church Membership: Privileges or Partnership?
Why become a church member when you can just attend? Biblical membership isn't about perks. It's a partnership that lets love bear weight.
Passages: 12:4–5
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September 15, 2026
Faithful Isn't a Personality Type
Some men aren't wired for 5 a.m. alarms and color-coded plans. Are they just less faithful? What Scripture says about temperament, sloth, and steady faithfulness.
Passages: 12:11
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October 5, 2026 · Giving Account
Why "Hold Me Accountable" Doesn't Work (and What to Say Instead)
Most Christian men have asked their friends to hold them accountable. It rarely works, and the reason is in the sentence itself. A better sentence, and why it changes everything.
Passages: 14:12
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September 27, 2026 · Giving Account
A Rule of Life for Men Who Hate Rules
You don't need a type-A personality to grow in faith. Six practical ways for creative, low-structure men to build steady faithfulness into an ordinary week.
Passages: 14:12
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Giving Account · Chapter 2 companion
Close the Books: What the Month-End Report Teaches About Accountability
In every business, the man who managed the money writes the report. Auditors review it. Scripture uses the same pattern, and it changes how men give account.
Passages: 14:12
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June 1, 2026 · Giving Account
Accountability Software Can Send a Report. It Can't Give Your Account.
Filters and monitoring apps can help men fighting pornography. Here is what they do well, what they can't do, and how to use them inside real biblical accountability.
Passages: 14:12
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May 17, 2026 · Giving Account
What Does the Bible Actually Say About Accountability?
Search the Bible for "hold each other accountable" and you won't find it. Here is what Scripture does say about accountability, and why the difference matters for Christian men.
Passages: 14:12
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July 3, 2025 · Giving Account
Giving Account in Marriage
Accountability in marriage doesn't mean making your wife your monitor. It means owning your own load and telling her the truth before she has to find it.
Passages: 14:12