
Steeple Church Podcast
Romans Disarmed Wk 1 - Jarrod McKenna - 15th June 2025
<p>📖 Romans 1:1–2, 16–17</p><p>🔹 The gospel begins in shame — and undoes it<br/> 🔹 Jesus is Lord means Caesar is not<br/> 🔹 Phoebe preached it first<br/> 🔹 God’s justice is not abstract — it’s healing, embodied, and disruptive</p><p>💬<br/> Romans has long been read through the lens of empire, patriarchy, and personal escape. But what if it was never meant to justify power, but expose it?<br/> This week, we opened the book not through Augustine or Luther, but through Phoebe — the first to carry and interpret this dangerous letter.<br/> A gospel first spoken by a crucified slave, carried by a woman, read t...

