[BONUS] Jesus Calling Scripture Study: The Book of Romans with J.D. Walt
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🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a special scripture-focused bonus episode of the Jesus Calling Podcast, where we take a look at the book of Romans with pastor and author J.D. Walt. J.D. walks us through Romans and how it illuminates a “darkness to light movement, chaos to love, and chaos to new creation.”
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Romans: From Sin Management to Love Unleashed
Interview Quotes:
“The awakening that I was experiencing led me to understand that the Christian life and faith is not a good-to-great program. It’s a death to life movement. It’s a darkness to light movement. It is chaos to love, chaos to new creation, lost to love.” - J.D. Walt
“Consecration, transformation, demonstration—that’s Romans in a nutshell. That’s a Christian life in a nutshell.” - J.D. Walt
“In the early church, they had a saying: one Christian is no Christian. Certainly every person has to become a follower of Jesus, a believer themselves. But this is not like golf, it’s like football. It’s a team sport. We are made for community, we already are connected together.” - J.D. Walt
“One of the greatest acts is simply being together in God’s Word, because it’s a Word that actually moves us towards each other. It moves us towards loving one another. Love must be sincere, Paul says in Romans 12.” - J.D. Walt
“The opposite of sin is love. Love is the movement toward God and others. Sin is the retraction of self into its own world at the cost of worship of God and love of neighbor. We need a better understanding of love—love is not soft and fuzzy, it’s hard and real.” - J.D. Walt
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| 1:02.1 | today for new videos each week. What amazes me about Romans is here you have the most significant letter in the history of the world. |
| 1:16.4 | He's writing the hundred people in little house churches because they can't get along |
| 1:22.1 | and their community is imploding. There's a whole backstory here of how it happened, but his faith is that a hundred people |
| 1:32.6 | banded together in Jesus can actually change a city of a million. |
| 1:39.0 | Welcome to a special scripture-focused bonus episode of the Jesus Calling podcast, where we take a look |
| 1:44.7 | at the book of Romans with pastor and author J.D. Walt. J.D. walks us through how Romans illuminates |
| 1:51.9 | the Christian journey as one from death to life, the notion that faith was designed to be a team |
| 1:57.0 | sport, and how the opposite of sin isn't behaving well, it's love on a whole new level. |
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