Christianity is utterly unique among religions in insisting that it isn’t what we do for God that makes us right with Him, but only what He does for us. This…
From the very beginning God promised to bless the world with salvation through Abraham: “In you all the nations shall be blessed”. Abraham heard the gospel centuries before Moses received…
The Galatians received the Spirit, grew in grace, suffered hardships, and witnessed miracles all by faith. Was this a new invention of knowing and following God? Paul has argued that…
Faith is not only the beginning of the Christian life. It’s the beginning, middle and end. Paul’s enemies had no problem including faith in their religious system; they just wanted…
It’s always awkward when a fight breaks out at the church potluck, but what if the two parties are apostles? This is the rumble in the New Testament church. Because…
Everywhere Paul went false teachers followed him like yipping hyenas. They tried to say he was a lesser apostle, taught a different gospel, and now was at odds with the…
There’s only one gospel, but where is that gospel from? Is it just an invention, an eccentric interpretation from a very eccentric guy? Paul defended his apostleship, and now he…
In all of Paul’s other letters, after greeting his audience he either gives thanks or prays for them, but not here! The matter is urgent and arresting: there is no…
Galatians is the Magna Carta of Christian liberty. Martin Luther loved it, calling it “my Katie von Bora”, and John Bunyan loved Luther’s commentary on it second only to Scripture.…
