What is joy? How do we define it? Where does it come from and how do we keep it? We live in a world that is fraught with difficulties, challenges, and suffering. We all want to have more consistent joy in life. Yet, it seems the more we pursue joy, the more elusive it becomes.
In this letter, Paul deals with the relation between Law and grace...
Galatians 1:3-5 represents Paul's second point in his introductory...
In this section, Paul focuses on what the gospel is and why it matters...
In this passage, Paul is referring to his own conversion story in...
In this section, he continues to respond to the question he anticipates...
In this text, Paul continues to defend the gospel he proclaims as being...
Paul continues to respond to the question he raised back in 1:10 and...
Here Paul will deal with a major issue which had the potential of...
In this passage Paul now begins to deal clearly with what the gospel is...
Since justification is by faith alone, then do works matter? Does the...
In this passage, Paul makes the argument that justification before God...
Here Paul begins treading into deep theological waters in an effort to...
Paul argues that justification before God is and must be by faith...
If justification before God is by faith alone, and has always been by...
Paul deals with the practical applications regarding all he has been...
Paul continues to drive home his point that we are justified by faith...
At this point in the letter, Paul has finished with his defense of the...
Paul expresses his personal concern for the Galatian Christians...
Paul uses the story of Sarah and Hagar as a sort of sermon illustration...
Paul talks about what it means to be set free in Christ and reminds his...
Paul now turns his attention towards the consequences of not holding...
Here Paul begins to explain what it means to possess true freedom in...
Paul helps us understand "how" we use our freedom to serve one another...
Paul now begins to identify what it looks like to not walk with the...
This text deals with the evidence of conversion. Paul now shows the...
When Paul writes that "the fruit of the Spirit", the evidence of the...
What is peace? How does one define it? How do we get it and how can...
What does it mean to be patient? What does that look like? How...
What is kindness? What does it look like? How is it different from...
Goodness is something true believers should possess and display. But...
Most understand what it means to be faithful; thus, in this message we...
Gentleness is not something we should only expect from our mothers and...
Self-control is the one quality every Christian struggles with. All...
Paul summarizes what he has been discussing in 5:16-24. These two...
In these verses, Paul begins fleshing out the practical implications of...
Paul provides a very practical way Christians can "bear one another's...
Paul will summarize the entire book by addressing two main points...
