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Jul 25, 20184 min read
The Way You Became a Christian Is the Same Way to Grow as One
In Galatians 3, Paul compares the salvation process to the experience of Abraham: “… just like Abraham who believed God, and it was...
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Jun 11, 20184 min read
Sons and Daughters Love to Obey
Sometimes when I look into the mirror now, I’ll see Lynn Greear, my dad, looking back at me. And as much that startles me (reminding me...
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Jun 4, 20184 min read
What Do I Do with the Holy Spirit?
When Paul addresses the Galatians as “you dear idiots” in Galatians 3 (Phillips), it’s for good reason. Paul is saying, “You understood...
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Jan 24, 20185 min read
Does the Law Still Have a Purpose Today?
The beauty of the gospel is that we don’t have to do anything to be accepted by God. Our “doing,” as Scripture amply points out, plays no...
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Jan 8, 20184 min read
You Don’t Reap What You Sow; You Reap More
Plant a wheat seed, and it will turn into a wheat stalk that can produce hundreds of wheat seeds. Plant an acorn, and it will grow into...
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Jan 1, 20184 min read
Bearing the Burdens of the Broken
In Galatians 6:2, the Apostle Paul calls us to “carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ” (CSB). For...
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Dec 18, 20173 min read
The One Little Word That Changed the World
Paul ends his letter to the Galatians by returning to the same theme he had hammered from verse 1: the gospel. He writes, “But as for me,...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read
God Can’t Multiply What You Haven’t Sown
In Galatians 6:7, the Apostle Paul highlights what I’ve heard called an “absolute principle” in Scripture: “For whatever a person sows he...
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Dec 11, 20173 min read
Where Do You Get the Power to Live?
One of the most famous verses in Galatians is Paul’s ultimate statement of his identity: “I have been crucified with Christ, and I no...
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Dec 6, 20174 min read
Stop Trying to Grow the Fruits of the Spirit
You may have spent years trying to work to develop the fruit of the Spirit found in Galatians 5:22-23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is...
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Nov 29, 20175 min read
The Real Reasons Our Society Is So Divided
Paul wrote to the Galatian church to show them, among other things, that a lot of barriers between people exist because we try to justify...
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Nov 27, 20174 min read
The Hagar Lesson: What to Do While Waiting on God’s Promise
When Abraham and Sarah believed the promise that God would give them a son, they didn’t get pregnant immediately. In fact, there was a...
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Nov 15, 20175 min read
Which of These False Gospels Do You Believe?
Most of the new Christians in the early church were Jews, and Jews had been raised to believe that obedience to the law was how you got...
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Oct 9, 20173 min read
The Gospel Is One, Unified Message—Here’s Why That Matters
When I lived and worked among Muslims, they would often tell me that Mohammad received the Quran from the angel Gabriel in a cave and...
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Oct 4, 20174 min read
Three Signs of a Transformed Life
There is a man who is part of one of the Summit’s prison campuses and has been in prison for 14 years. All signs point to him being...
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Sep 30, 20171 min read
The Gospel Prayer – Digital Download
As I mentioned during our services this weekend, for every relational problem we have—whether division, or insecurity, or fear—the answer...
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Sep 20, 20173 min read
How Christianity *Really* Got Started
Skeptics have a difficult time explaining how Christianity really got started. What gave 11 ordinary and otherwise unremarkable men the...
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