Today’s Message:  Continuing in Paul’s letter to the Galatians, Paul gives the remedy to the earlier mentioned trouble with a general principle – walk in the Spirit! Interesting verb form shows us the phrase is one of promise and assurance and suggests God helps his followers walk in His ways.  We are in a battle between flesh and Spirit, so we must seek to bear the ‘fruit of the Spirit’ as we march with God and His people to victory.

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Today’s Message:  Continuing in Paul’s letter to the Galatians, Paul gives the key idea of his whole letter – Freedom in Christ.  Use of and assertion (indicative) and a command (imperative) suggests every believers tension between ‘already’ and ‘not yet’.  We’ll see what a great blessing is our freedom to serve one another and others with Joy – in Jesus!

Recording of Today’s message –>Freedom to Love

Today’s Message:  Continuing in Paul’s letter to the Galatians, we’ll remember ‘Piety’, though having a ‘bad rap’ in our day, is a very good thing, it is what the OT called ‘Fear of God’ and what the NT calls ‘putting God’s word into practice’ or obedience.  People who didn’t have piety were attacking the Galatians, and we too are under attack at times. These attacks rob victims of joy.  Knowing the gospel is one way to retrieve the joy Jesus wants us to have in Him.

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Today’s Message:  Continuing in Paul’s letter to the Galatians, he now turns the spotlight on the Christian Community, saying 1. ‘You are ALL sons of God’ 2. “through faith” 3. “in Christ Jesus.”  This is so profound the NT uses at least four metaphors to help us understand it.  We’ll see the importance of baptism in a Christian’s life signaling we are “clothed… with Christ”!  We are heirs of Gods Kingdom with Christ, heirs obey their loving ‘Papa’ because they want to, not because they must.

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Today’s Message:  Continuing in Paul’s letter to the Galatians, today we will look at the connection between the Law and Covenant Promises.  The Law came Four Centuries after God’s covenant with Abraham and did not undo the Covenant.  The Law is our ‘guardian’ (ESV) to protect God’s children and prepare them for the coming of Christ Jesus, who completely forgives all our sins.

Recording of Today’s message –>How Does the Law Work with the Promise?

Today’s Message:  Continuing in Paul’s letter to the Galatians, we will see how Paul’s ‘case’ became outright dispute with Peter, who was eating and having fellowship with Gentiles until “certain men came from James”. What causes a Christian leader to be afraid of a group of Christians?  Cutting sin away from our lives is as important now as it was then, who does it and how.  We must help each other with this as Jesus would and does as he transforms us to himself.

Recording of Today’s message — >How to Cut Sin Away From Us

Today’s Message:  Continuing in Paul’s letter to the Galatians, we will continue to think about Paul’s ‘case’ and those making accusations about him and disrupting the believers and spying on Paul and the Galatians. The truth of the gospel and the nature of freedom in Christ was at stake, and they often are to this day.  Live freely in the grace of Christ and never abuse that freedom!

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Today’s Message:  Today we continue in Paul’s letter to the Galatians.  We will again think about how to summarize ‘the gospel’ in 25 words or less and where we get it.  We’ll see Paul’s autobiography and his credibility, his ‘case’ in accusations about him.  Our Christian faith is historical and reliable, and as those called by Christ we should be able to make that case by reliable and true interpretation of Scripture.

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