Heb 12:5-11. We don’t always understand why bad things happen in life, but we do know that God uses things in life to deal with us or discipline us. He desires to bring us back to a relationship of faith in Him and also works to help keep us there. But whatever befalls us, may […]

Gal 3:6-14. Paul spells it out as clear as can be. The false teachers were proposing that salvation came through observing the law, but Paul tells the Galatians that “no one is justified by the law”. In our modern language that means that no one goes to heaven by good works. Salvation is only through […]

Heb 11:11, . As we focus on the story of Sarah (Gen 12-21), we are reminded again that life is not perfect. Furthermore, husbands are not perfect, family is not perfect and our faith is not perfect. However, God uses imperfect people by His great grace. This is true-life Christianity, where grace and redemption connect […]

Gal 3:1-5. The false teachers (Judaizers) in Galatia were challenging Paul’s gospel of grace. Paul masterfully asks the Galatians 5 rhetorical questions, relating to their own experience, that vindicate the grace gospel. What personal experience do we have to show how the grace gospel holds up?

1 Cor 15:9-10. Grace changes lives. Like Paul, we can all recognize the great work of grace in our lives. I WAS – BY GRACE – I AM! Now I am a Christian, a son, a saint, God’s beloved, forgiven, saved and I can say “ I am what I am by the Grace of […]