Romans, Paul's greatest work is placed first among his thirteen epistles in the New Testament. While the four Gospels present the words and works of Jesus, Romans explores the significance of His sacrificial death. Romans is more than a book of theology; it is also a book of practical exhortation. The good news of Jesus Christ is more than facts to be believed; it is also a life to be lived.

The Galatians, having launched their Christian experience by faith, seem content to leave their voyage of faith and chart a new course based on works, a course Paul finds disturbing. His letter to the Galatians is a vigorous attack against the gospel of works and a defense of the gospel of faith.

The clouds of legalism were forming over the church at Jerusalem, hindering the ministries of Peter and Paul. Peter eventually left the Jerusalem church for James to oversee. As a pastor, James recognized the hypocrisy and legalism and addressed these issues both with his congregation and the Jews who were scattered.

Almost three-quarters of a century after the Hebrew believers turned the world upside down, much of the church at Jerusalem had become mired in the legalistic trenches of Judaism and mixed the Mosaic law with their faith in Christ. Like a disease, this tainted doctrine spread to the rest of the church, provoking the apostle Paul to respond with what has become one of the most intricate and astounding revelations of Jesus Christ in the New Testament.

The Apostle Paul had a vision in Troas of a man from Macedonia calling him to preach the gospel. Thus began Paul’s ministry in the Roman colony of Philippi. The themes of Philippians are Joy and partnership as he expresses his thanks and appreciation to the people of Philippi who stood by him as partners with their prayers and financial support.

Epaphras, the pastor of the church at Colosse, reported to an imprisoned Paul that the false teachers had infiltrated the Colossian church and were poisoning it with Gnostic doctrine. Paul’s response was the book of Colossians, a rich concentration of Pauline revelation concerning the supremacy of Christ and the way believers are to live because of it.