Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.

Thanks for joining. Today, I am joined by Ben Creachie.

What's going on, y'all?

And then we've got Carrington Sladen.

What's up, guys?

And here's what you need to know about my two friends.

Carrington's a big runner. I am.

But she's also into pickleball.

So into pickleball.

But she does both activities in Hokas.

The only brand to wear.

And I would passionately disagree, but that's becoming more and more of an unpopular opinion.

For sure. And Ben, he's pretty unsuspecting, also into pickleball. Very into pickleball. But if you're 35 or under, you'll get this reference. His keys are on an off-white key chain. Didn't want you to bring this off. He is styling. That is a designer brand. It was a gift, though. I promise. Don't catch you on preachers and sneakers. Ben Kirby, don't come for me. But those are my friends. I'm so glad y'all get to hear from them today. So Romans 5, Carrington, you want to kick us off? Yeah. As we've studied Romans 5, I just love the opening portion of it, talking about how we have peace with God through Christ and just our assurance of hope that we have because we're justified by faith.

And Emma, will you give us kind of a rundown of what justification is?

So as we were preparing, Ben actually sent me this commentary, but I thought it had a great definition

for justification. And it says this, justification is an act of pure grace. Many ministers actually

stay away from the topic of grace because they are inwardly afraid that congregants might

misinterpret the message and cheapen grace by thinking that God somehow

justifies sin. But true grace says that God justifies the sinner. It means that even though we sin,

God sees us as righteous. We're right before God. That's good. And Romans 5-1 says,

therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

And as a Christian who no longer lives under the fear of judgment, but we get to have peace with

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