Evening Prayer: The Peculiar Politics of Christ
Lord Jesus, You never played by the world's rulebook — and tonight, I'm grateful You didn't. In Romans 16, Paul does something the Roman Empire...
This is devotionals, drawing on Romans 16:1-2. It carries an emotional tone of hope, compassion and love.
Lord Jesus, You never played by the world's rulebook — and tonight, I'm grateful You didn't. In Romans 16, Paul does something the Roman Empire would have found absurd. He entrusts his most important letter — the theological masterpiece that would reshape history — to a woman named Phoebe. Not a senator. Not a military courier. A deaconess from the port town of Cenchreae, where sailors cursed and merchants haggled and nobody expected the Kingdom of God to show up carrying a scroll.…
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