Overview of Sermon:In this passage, Paul tells the Galatian church about his visit to Jerusalem where he met withPeter, James, and John. Paul is continuing to push back against the false teachers in Galatia bydemonstrating that the gospel he preached to them is the same message that the apostles inJerusalem preach. While Paul was in Jerusalem, false teachers tried to sway him and the otherapostles...  Read More

Sermon Overview:Paul continues his address to the Galatians, drawing his argument from his own conversion story. The true gospel that Paul preaches is not from man but from God, received from the revelation of God’s saving grace in his life. This gospel relies entirely on God’s saving work and faith in response to that saving work as the basis for salvation. Paul himself, who was the least likely ...  Read More

“[Galatians is] my own epistle, to which I have plighted my troth. It is my own Katie von Bora” - Martin Luther“The glory of the gospel is that God has declared Christians to be rightly related to him in spite of their sin. But our greatest temptation and mistake is to try to smuggle character into his work of grace.” - Sinclair Ferguson“The true gospel is in its essence what Paul called it in Act...  Read More

Overview of the Sermon:After God had opened the door of salvation to the Gentiles of Galatia, the temptation to add to the gospel quickly arose (Acts 13-15). Galatians is the only letter we have from Paul that doesn’t open with thanksgiving and celebration. Instead, Paul starts right off passionately addressing the Galatian church’s drift from salvation by Christ alone. He begins by rehearsing the...  Read More

"A verse that has been on my heart for a year now is John 15:5 where Jesus says, “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” We will bear much fruit for Christ by abiding in Jesus dependently for apart from Him we can do nothing. One of ways we abide in Jesus dependently is to bring our needs to Him...  Read More

Sermon Overview:Paul encourages the church in Philippi to center their Christian walk around one thing: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead. Far from suggesting that Christians never reflect on their past experiences, Paul is instead urging all believers to not dwell on their former achievements or failings and instead meditate often on their future resurrection fr...  Read More