GOSPEL :: FAMILY :: MISSION

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Galatians 3:6 – 9 | People of Faith

The last four words of our text today refer to Abraham as “the man of faith” (v. 9). As I thought about this description of Abraham this week, I thought about all of us in our own unique intersections of this journey of following Jesus as people of faith. Each of us are in our own unique seasons of this struggle to follow Jesus as aliens in a sin-soaked world that is not our home.

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Galatians 2:1 – 10 | Fighting for Freedom

In this passage, the apostle Paul is continuing to defend the authenticity of the gospel and his authority as an apostle. The church in Galatia was under attack from false teachers inside the church. These false teachers were most likely bonified members of the church who walked and talked like brothers and sisters in Christ. But they were actually imposters who were challenging the authenticity of Paul’s gospel as well as his authority as an apostle. They could not fathom the freedom that Paul proclaimed, and they were working overtime to put the church in the chains of slavery once again.

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Galatians 1:1 – 5 | The Substance of a Greeting

The opening lines of a letter can oftentimes be overlooked as a mere formality without any substance; we typically do not pay any attention to the greeting in a letter as we move on into what seems to be more substantial in the body of the letter. But I would argue that there is more substance in the first five verses of this letter to the Galatians than we might notice at first glance.

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Acts 28:1 – 31 | Unhindered

As we come to the final chapter in the book of Acts, I am struck with the example of boldness we see in the apostle Paul. The final phrase of our passage says that Paul spent two years in Rome “proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance” (v. 31).

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Acts 27:1 – 44 | A Sure and Steadfast Anchor for the Soul

It has been nearly eleven years since I last preached this passage in the early days of planting this church. While the last eleven years of ministry hold some miraculous memories – people being saved powerfully from the clutches of Satan, Sin, and Death, broken lives being restored, marriages being strengthened, sin being overcome, etc. – even amidst all that miraculous beauty, the last eleven years has also felt like I literally walked through hell and back sometimes.

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