Have you ever wished you could trade places with someone, if it meant their salvation? That’s exactly what Paul says in the opening of Romans 9 - a grief so great he could wish himself accursed for his unbelieving kinsmen. From there Paul turns to the hardest (and one of the most contested) doctrines in all of Scripture: God’s sovereign election. In this lesson, beginning with Paul's proper disposition toward this doctrine, we trace its history in the stories of Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Pharaoh and Moses, and consider the circumstance in which it comes to us. Finally, we turn to election's proper application - a doctrine meant not for doubt or pride, but for humility, assurance, and confidence, both in our own salvation and in sharing the gospel with anyone, since God will lose none of his elect. Listen as Pastor Glenn Jones walks us through Romans 9:1-29 and God’s purpose in election. Preached on the 18th Sunday of Trinity Season, October 4, 2026.

Have you ever prayed for a loved one who seems determined to run from Jesus? If God is sovereign in election, why pray at all? Last week we saw God’s purpose in election, and this week Paul shows us what to do with it: pray, preach, and keep believing. Paul explains how Israel, zealous for God but “not according to knowledge,” stumbled over the very Messiah the law had always pointed to and tells everyone that Christ is the telos of the law, both its goal and its end. That means that God's salvation has always come through his word to those who hear it by faith, never through works-righteousness or ethnic superiority. Listen as Pastor Glenn Jones walks us through Romans 10 on the 19th Sunday of Trinity Season, October 11, 2026.

Do you know, really know, that you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit? What does it mean that you are to be adopted by God, with a new birth certificate that says you were born in heaven? Romans 8 is one of the most beloved chapters in all of Scripture, and Paul opens it as the thanksgiving that answers the cry of Romans 7: Christ has come, and there is now no condemnation for those who are in him. The coming of Christ into the world changed everything - not just us, but all of creation, which groans until now. But best of all, the entire creation has been waiting for this moment, so that in the end when God's elect are raised from the dead at Christ's return, the whole world will be handed over to them to rule and reign as co-heirs with Christ Jesus our Lord. Listen as Pastor Glenn Jones walks through all of Romans 8 on the 17th Sunday of Trinity Season, September 27, 2026.