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…
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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…
Exploring Galatians – The Curse of the Law
A Vin diagram is used to graphically depict how two or more concepts overlap. For instance, say we’re comparing an apple with a tomato. One circle would describe the apple…
Exploring Galatians: Blessed With Abraham
After Paul’s attention-getting charge of “you foolish Galatians,” he begins to teach them about faith. Paul writes, “Even so Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.…
Exploring Galatians: Paul’s Charge
You foolish, idiotic, imbecilic, stupid, air-headed Galatians. Not exactly the way to make folks feel good about themselves. But with those “shake someone by the collar” kinds of words, Paul…
Exploring Galatians: The Gospel of Grace
If Paul’s letter to the Romans is his theological masterpiece, then Galatians 2:14-21 is his elevator speech. To recap, Paul is writing to the Galatian church because they, although being…
Exploring Galatians: The Antioch Incident
Paul uses an incident with Peter to vividly explain the Gospel of Grace. At some time following the Jerusalem Council, Peter visited the church at Antioch. In the early days…
Paul’s Defense
After fourteen years of missionary work, Paul was compelled to seek confirmation of his labors. Acts 15 records the Jerusalem Council and begins with, “Some men came down from Judea…
Exploring Galatians: Paul’s Autobiography
We all have a history, a path that we traveled, often unknowingly, to arrive at today. At some point, that path connected you with Lambchow. Early in his letter to…
Exploring Galatians – A Gospel Twist
Paul didn’t waste any time with pleasantries in his letter to the Galatians. His short opening is immediately followed with… “I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him…
Exploring Galatians: “Paul, an Apostle”
“Paul, an apostle (not sent from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),” (Galatians 1:1, NASB95)…