You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Bias.

Hello everyone, welcome to today's episode.

We're excited to announce the newest title in the Bible for Normal People Book Series

Romans for Normal People.

It's written by our good friend Daniel Kirk.

He's an award-winning New Testament scholar, author, who spent years engaging normal people

about the Bible and nerdy things through blogs, podcasts, books, speaking.

This book is great because it doesn't just give you the historical, literary context

of the letter, though of course it does all of that.

But it also wrestles with what it means to read Romans well.

And that's important because reading Romans well is not always something we as Christians

have done well.

Romans is not just this collection of one-liners that we can wield against those with whom

we disagree.

It's Paul's plea to the early church to put aside their petty squabbles and get on with

the business of living like Jesus to stop waiting for the new creation and just start living

it.

So with our latest book here, Romans for Normal People, you're invited to think about Romans

in a new way and engage with the text as it is.

And of course we couldn't ask for a better guide than our good friend Daniel Kirk.

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