Exploring Galatians: Grace and Peace
Our acceptance by others seems important to our emotional well-being. We bounce between mimicking those we’re with to being extravagantly different to garner attention. The goal of acceptance is the…
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Exploring Galatians: The Good Seed
My home is surrounded by fields. In our area, corn and soybeans are the most common crops. But there is also the occasional pasture, along with some wheat, garden crops,…
Exploring Galatians: Bearing With One Another
Researchers often use “magic-quadrants” to understand interactions within complex systems. These “magic-quadrants” are a kind of splatter graph where a dot up and to the right is best. A simple…
Exploring Galatians: Walk By the Spirit
We like rules and guidelines. As much as we complain about them, rules give us a sense of being okay. Rules allow us to justify our actions regardless of the…
Called to Freedom
Balance is interesting if you think about it. Place the balance point properly, and a large weight can be balanced with a small one. It’s not a matter of equality,…
Exploring Galatians: Tumbled Words
Have you ever gotten so exasperated with a situation that words just seem to tumble out? You know, like when a toddler makes a 5-alarm mess just as you’re getting…
Freedom and Faith
The priorities of our lives are like a tower of wooden blocks with the highest priorities at the top. But it doesn’t take much more than a rampaging toddler to…
Exploring Galatians: Two Sons
As Paul nears the end of his argument, he deploys an allegory to make his point. “Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to…
Exploring Galatians – Relationship Reset
Does absence make the heart grow fonder, or does distance breed contempt? Maybe both are true. In this part of our exploration of Galatians, Paul gets personal. Behind his words…
Exploring Galatians: A Matter of Conscience
There is a division in the Body of Christ that we’re going to explore. It may make some of you uncomfortable or even angry. But this topic is really just…
Exploring Galatians – When the Training Wheels Come Off
Training wheels are wonderful things for beginner bicycle riders. Those little outriders prevent many tumbles, tears, and skinned knees. Training wheels grow confidence and allow for some independence. But eventually,…
Exploring Galatians: The Strength of a Promise
Every December, our local paper publishes the new laws going into effect in the new year. Those laws could be a new wrinkle for laws already on the book or…