On June 26, 2003, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that criminalized same-sex intimacy. That decision set the stage for another decision 12 years later that legalized gay marriage. These legal decisions merely codified what a majority of Americans still today accept and celebrate. But at the end of Romans 1, Paul uses same sex intimacy as an example of the whole hearted rebellion against God that takes root in the human heart. Christians may be tempted to stand in judgment of people that sin differently than we do. In our text this week, Paul doesn’t stop with same sex sin, he also includes sins with which many of us are familiar; he even includes a sin that he will later identify in the epistle as his primary sin struggle. Join us this week as we explore the nature of sin: we need to understand the bad news in order to glory in the good news of the gospel.