Immediately afterwards, Peter is sent to the house of Cornelius, a Roman centurion. He'd been faithfully proclaiming the gospel, healing diseases and even calling a woman back from the laid out, there was a knock at his door with an invitation to the home of a Gentile of Gentiles: a Roman

Pharisee; 6  as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. 7  Paul puts it this way in Romans 4:5 - To the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly

with their mouth that 'Jesus is Lord' and believes in his heart that God raised him from the dead (Romans

Today: Romans 6

many ways, preaching isn't all that different from what the great orators who traveled throughout the Roman

The book of Romans begins with an announcement that the gospel - the proclamation of the good news of

It's hard for any of us to imagine what life in an ancient Roman prison dungeon must have been like,

Children were an afterthought in that Roman society, and were often considered little more than household

Today: Romans 5

The Roman Empire referred to them as a triumphus - a parade in which a victorious general would triumphantly