Righteous Sinner
Chad Escue
This is a podcast for all who are weary and need rest, for all who mourn and long for comfort, for all who fail and desire strength, and for all who sin and need a Savior. I have good news for you: Jesus Christ is a friend of sinners! "This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost" (1 Timothy 1:15).
I'm Chad Escue, Director of Briarwood Fellows and an Assistant Pastor at Briarwood Presbyterian Church (PCA), and this is the Righteous Sinner podcast. Nothing better sums up the identity of a Christian than Martin Luther's Latin phrase, simul iustus et peccator. Christians are, at one and the same time (simul) righteous (iustus), pardoned of all our sins and accepted as righteous in God's sight only for the sake of Christ's righteousness credited to us, and sinners (e