SUNDAY SERMON The Whole Gospel in One Letter A Sermon on the Doctrine of Romans, following Martin Luther’s Preface Romans 1–16 • Justification by Faith • ~30 minutes INTRODUCTION The Most Precious Letter Ever Written Martin Luther — the great Reformer who shook the world — once said of the letter we call Romans: “The more thoroughly it is treated, the more precious it becomes, and the better it tastes.” He was not a man given to idle flattery. He meant it. This morning we are going to do something unusual. Rather than preach from one verse, we are going to survey the entire Letter to the Romans — not in a hurry, but as a traveller walking through a great cathedral, pausing at each window to see what the light reveals. We will follow the roadmap that Luther himself drew for ordinary Christians in his famous Preface — because the gospel contained in Romans is not a puzzle for scholars. It is the good...
