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Read: Romans 3:21-31 21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This

He Helps Us Want the Path of Peace Read: Romans 3:9-20 9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, 10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;  no one does good, not even one.” 13 “Their throat is an open grave; they use their

One of our hopes for these meditations is that they would be a preparation for our hearts for the sermon on Sunday.  The sermon this week is on Romans 3: 1-8, a rich, complicated passage that, frankly, gave me quite the battle as I attempted to narrow its meaning down to a page or two.  But embedded in that passage is a verse from Psalm 51 (verse 4), and that Psalm is where I