Calvary Palisades Podcast

Paul uses a counterintuitive strategy to bring together the different factions in the Roman church, but it’s a strategy that can still work today. 

This week Paul builds off his argument from last week and gets specific about the ways people suppress the truth through idolatry and disobedience. Fair warning: it's going to get spicy, but it is so important for us to tackle these issues straight on. You'll see how many of the destructive behaviors we see in our world and in our own hearts, have the very same root.

What if the real danger is not that we don’t believe in God—but that we replace Him with something smaller? Pastor Justin explores how Romans 1:18–23 exposes the idols we don’t even know we are worshiping.

Pastor Justin teaches from Romans 1:8–17, where Paul expresses his deep longing to share the gospel with the believers in Rome—and explains why. We'll see God’s heart for sinners, both within the church and throughout the city.

After introducing himself in verse 1, Paul introduces the purpose of the letter to the Romans, which is to both convince and compel them to believe the Gospel and let it do its transforming work. In this passage, Paul lays out the Gospel in all its glory.  Watch Message on YouTube

The church father, Saint Augustine began his seminal work, Confessions, by saying, "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you". More than 600 years later, these words could not be more true. We live in a time of restlessness, a time where so many people are trying to find the thing that will finally allow them to exhale, to be at peace, to...