Hello this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona,

visit real faith.com, where you'll find study guides to go along with each sermon series as he

preaches verse by verse through books of the Bible, daily devotions, free

e-books and more. Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.

Well howdy good to see it.

Hey, we're in a fantastic, amazing epic, one of the most incredible books

written in the history of the world.

What is that book of the Bible?

Romans, and it's in chapter 15 that we find ourselves and as you find your place we're coming

near the end of our almost year-long study of Romans.

And some of you may think a year that's a long time

imagine if the sermons weren't so long how long it would actually take to go

through the book of Romans and where we're learning is how God has a relationship with us and then uses us to help

others come into relationship with him. And we've been learning from one of the

greatest minds in the most influential lives in the history of the church this book is

written by none other than the great legend the apostle Paul and sometimes when we

think of Paul if you're familiar with him at all you can almost treat him like a

superhero the reality is he's just a human being like the rest of us but his life is

really incredible over the course of about 10 years or so his ministry took him from one town to another, he would travel,

oftentimes by foot, upwards of 20 miles a day.

In addition, he would preach, he would teach, he writes books of the Bible, 13, maybe 14,

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