Gal 4:31-31. Paul uses the historical story of Isaac and Ishmael as an illustration in contrasting the Law verses Promise. I can either live as a slave in bondage to the law or in the freedom of being sons by grace and promise. So, do you live like the son of a slave or the […]

Luke 10:25-37. “The Good Samaritan”, perhaps the most misunderstood parable of all, teaches us that our love is deficient, we cannot keep the law, and we can only be saved by grace. Then, once we have His spirit, we can love as we are supposed to. It’s not that we should be good to be […]

Gal 4:1-7. If we would be given the privileges and rights of full adult sonship through adoption, why would we ever return to live as slaves under a religious system? But that is what the Galatians were doing and, as believers, we must be careful to always live as sons and not as slaves.

Luke 15:1-31. Jesus tells this 3-fold parable of the lost sheep, coin & son (Luke 15) to demonstrate that God does, indeed, receive sinners. But not only does He receive them, but He actively seeks them and when He finds them he rejoices over them. The powerful story of the returning prodigal son and the […]

Ex 6:6-7. The Passover (Seder) Meal involved various parts & elements used to remember deliverance from Egypt. Jesus took the broken matzoh (Afikomen) and the 3rd cup of that night (cup of redemption) and said “do this in remembrance of me”. During Passover and every communion, we remember our salvation through Christ, the true Passover […]