Date: 24 Jul 2016 Text: Romans 5:20-6:14 Introduction I heard the story recently of someone who played the Cornet in an orchestra in Leicester. It seems that one evening this lady, who is a Christian, had gone to a rehearsal of a new arrangement of Amazing Grace. On arrival the Conductor was giving out the various music parts to the members of the orchestra: violins, cellos, violas and so on. He suddenly ran out of music and so shouted to the brass section, “Sorry but we’ve r

Date: 03 Jul 2016 Text: Romans 5:12-19 Introduction As we went through Romans 5:1-11 we learned that we have been justified and reconciled to God and as a result have received three important gifts; peace with God, access to God and hope in the glory of God. The question that surely arises though from these eleven verses is quite simple; how did we get into a position where we needed to be justified and we needed to be reconciled? What went wrong to get us into that state? Go