Tag: christianity
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The Insult of Improvement (Galatians 5:1)
A yoke distributes weight across shoulders so an animal can pull a burden. Religion does the same thing to the conscience. It shifts the weight back onto the believer and says Christ started the work, but you must carry it forward. Grace declares that Christ carried it all the way to the end.
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The Bondwoman Must Go (Galatians 4:30-31)
When legalism begins to mock grace, the solution is not to debate it endlessly. The solution is to put it out of the house. The law has a purpose, but it is not your inheritance.
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The Mirror and the Parachute (Galatians 3:22)
The law was never given to make us righteous. It was given to reveal that we are not. Romans 3:10–11 says plainly, “There is none righteous, no, not one… there is none that seeketh after God.” That dismantles human pride. No one climbs their way to heaven by sincerity. No one stumbles upon God by…
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Because He Is Faithful (Galatians 3:5)
Paul asks a question that cuts straight through religious pride. When the Spirit moves and when miracles occur, is it because someone achieved a higher level of spirituality? Or is it simply because someone believed?
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Not for an Hour (Galatians 2:4–5)
“False brethren… came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage. To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.”
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Do Not Drift Back – Part 2 (Galatians 1:8)
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed… If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” (Galatians 1:8–9)
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Do Not Drift Back – Part 1 (Galatians 1:6–7)
“I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another…” (Galatians 1:6–7a). You can almost hear the disbelief in Paul’s voice.
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Delivered From This Present Evil World (Galatians 1:3–4)
But when Adam chose rebellion in the Garden, something catastrophic happened. Authority that had been entrusted to man (Genesis 1:26) was effectively surrendered to the one he obeyed. That is why Satan could show Jesus the kingdoms of the world and offer them to Him
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Double Peace
Isaiah gives us a song for a future day: “In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. Thou wilt keep him in…
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When God Doesn’t Remove It
If I’m honest, that’s not the answer I usually want. I want relief. I want clarity. I want the door opened, the pain stopped, the problem fixed. But sometimes God answers prayer by giving Himself instead of giving solutions.
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The Light That Isn’t
If a message removes the necessity of repentance, the reality of sin, or the sufficiency of Christ’s blood, no matter how luminous it appears, it is not from the Father of Lights
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Our Inheritance Is a Person
Scripture says, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard… the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). There will be beauty, joy, and experiences beyond imagination. But those blessings are not the center. Jesus is. He is our inheritance.
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Change Your Course
There is a dangerous confidence that can quietly settle into the human heart. It is the assumption that we know better, that our course is wiser, that our timing is superior.
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Bought Out of the Market
Ephesians 1 is a mountain range of truth, and verse 7 is one of its highest peaks. Paul brings us to the word redemption—a word that is not soft or sentimental, but sharp and costly.
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Written in the Book
God is never shown predestining anyone to hell. Not once. Every time predestination is mentioned, it is unto adoption, unto sonship, unto conformity to Christ.
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When the Bible Feels Dry
Have you ever opened your Bible, hit a chapter full of names, measurements, or mildew laws… and thought, Lord, what am I supposed to do with this?
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The Measure of the Seed
“But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.”
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When God Speaks in the Night
“For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.…
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Drawn Before We Knew
Salvation does not begin with man climbing toward God. It begins with God stepping toward man.
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The Only One Who Could Sit on That Throne
Only two of the Gospels record genealogies, and that is not accidental. Matthew writes to present Jesus as King. Luke, however, presents Jesus as the Son of Man.
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Three Groups, One King
In Matthew 13, Jesus gives three parables in close succession—the hidden treasure, the pearl of great price, and the dragnet. These are often taught as separate lessons, but together they form a single prophetic picture of how God will bring this age to its conclusion.
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When Sweat Became Blood
Luke was not guessing. He was a physician. And when he wrote that Jesus’ sweat became “as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44), he chose a word that demands attention.