Frustrated Grace

Galatians 2:21 reads: “I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.” Frustrating grace is defined as ‘annulling’ in the Montgomery Modern English Translation. The Weymouth Translation renders that clause, “I do not nullify the grace”. Let’s look…

Proficiency of counterfeit detection proliferates through repeated exposure with the genuine. Federal agents spend countless hours handling real currency to hone their ability to spot a counterfeit bill. We do well to mirror that method as it applies to knowing the gospel and the one and only true God, our…

Grace: The Only Gospel

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Galatians 1:6 In this passage of scripture, the Bible defines grace as the gospel. “Unto another gospel” refers us back to grace, affirming grace as the gospel. In fact,…

Rescue

Many think that Jesus came to the world to save us – and he did, but few understand that He wasn’t just saving us from hell after we die. His primary mission was to rescue us now from the evil on earth. In Galatians, Paul starts with the first of…

Love, Guaranteed in the Three

From both the Old and the New Testaments, we have God’s modus operandi. It’s quite comforting that the Father, in teaching us how to confirm or establish a principle uses that very same principal. In the mouth or the witness of two or three, He confirms a fact or a…

Now That’s Love!

God’s holiness surpasses our comprehension. He said in 1 John 3:15 that “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: …” and “… whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” (Matt 5:28).  Further to the stringency of His standard of…

Have you opened your gift?

Jesus tells us that we have a gift from God, but it’s up to us to know the gift. In Luke 11:13 He says, “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”…

Understanding Love

The scripture defines love as an action (John 3:16) and while that is certainly true according to scripture, it’s not completely true. God who is love, has magnanimously given us His Son. The natural response to such extravagance is reciprocation but it has to be according to knowledge (Rom 10:2-3)…

See Him, Know Him, Love Him

I watched a movie, Now You See Me, and I am still hearing two of the lines: “Come in closer because the more you think you see, the easier it will be to fool you. The closer you are, the less you’ll actually see ” That reminds me of the…

Valentine’s Day is our modern day celebration of love; however, given its brutal beginnings, the concept of actual love is grossly distorted and sorely missing. Let’s venture over to true love. God is love. That’s very comforting, but given that God is not a man (1 Sam 15:29) but a…