Some Posts Related to Romans 8.12-24 (Summer Break 2023)

I’m taking a bit of a Summer break from writing but wanted to share some existing resources on the blog that relate to today’s spitfire of an Epistle reading, Romans 8.12-25. The text, which is right in the heart of one of the meatiest sections of the whole New Testament, deals with a number of important themes, upon which I’ve already touched in the history of the blog. They include:

Spiritual Indebtedness (”we are debtors …”)

• Debt and Forgiveness

Spiritual Dichotomies (“we are debtors, not to the flesh … but [to] the Spirit”)

• And You Too
• Old and New
• Children of Love and Light

“The Flesh”

• In Our Bodies
• Bad Influences
• Idolatry and Excess

Slavery and Freedom (”for you did not receive a spirit of slavery …”)

• Freedom For
• A Spirit of Freedom
• The Freedom to Love
• Bondage and Freedom

Adoption (”you have received a spirit of adoption”)

• Waters of Repentance
• By Blood and by Grace
• On Election and Predestination

Suffering and Glorification with Christ (”if .. we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.”)

• “In Christ”
• Substitution, and More, in Paul
• Crucified, Risen, and Exalted

Creation Longing for Salvation (”For the creation waits with eager longing …”)

• The Big, Beautiful, All-Encompassing Salvation of our God
• “All Our Relations”

Hope

• Three Hopeful Things
• Hope
• A Word of Hope
• On Hope and the Cross