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Throughout church history the study of the book of Romans has been pivotal to understanding Christian life and doctrine. Chrysostom had it read aloud to him once a week. Augustine, Luther, and Wesley all came to assured faith through its impact. The Reformers saw it as the God-given key to understanding the whole of Scripture. Convinced that “Paul’s fullest, grandest, most comprehensive...

One who lives by faith is a righteous person in the sight of God. The righteous live by trust. When Jesus was in the Judean wilderness under the unbridled assault of Satan, lonely and hungry, Satan told him to take stones and make them bread. Jesus said he would not do that: “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God’ ” (Matt. 4:4). Anybody can believe in God. What it means to be a Christian is to trust him when he speaks, which does
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