Your righteousness has nothing to do with what you do. Can that actually be true?

Paul's takes a breath to recap and drive home the point. Everyone is equally condemned and therefore equally in need of and free to receive the righteousness which comes apart form the law,

Who needs the power of God for Salvation and why?

Why is the power of God needed for our salvation?

Paul's gives us the outline for the Letter to the Romans right up front:

For I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: First to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed--a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."

Pretty much everything in the rest of the letter is acknowledged here in these two short verses.

Who is Paul? Why is he writing Romans?

James gave us a nice list about how to tell the difference between heavenly and earthly wisom. Now let's see what John and Paul have to say.

With so much information coming from so many "experts" how do we discern true wisdom?

What do the "Wisdom Books" of the Old Testament tell us about Wisdom? In this bonus extended episode, we explore Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes to see what these three books together tell us about the mysteries of wisdom.

How important is Wisdom? Why?