Read Reflect Righteous is not a word we use in everyday speech. And because it’s a word that appears regularly in many English translations of the Bible you might be inclined to think of it as purely spiritual language. In our reading in the CEV version, the translation in verse 28 is good not righteous. […]

Read Reflect Sin controls everyone (v 22), and obeying religious laws, rituals or rites does not put us in right standing with God. How so? If it were possible for us as sinners, through our own efforts, to attain the perfection required by God, then law-keeping would have been a means of salvation. Then it […]

Read Reflect I was adopted into the family of God in the last week of November, 1979. It was phenomenal. By faith, I confessed my sin and asked Christ to be my Lord and Saviour. It still leaves me in awe. I was a child of the world, then God adopted me as his son. […]

Read Reflect One of my great sadnesses is hearing about a friend who knows and is known by God, yet gets hoodwinked by false teachers and bound by legalism. It’s particularly painful and frustrating when the person used to be a member of a congregation where I was the pastor … making me wonder if […]

Read Reflect There are many things in the Old Testament story that stand as symbols of things that would later come true. We call these symbols (persons, places, objects, or events) ‘shadows’ or ‘types’ of things to come. The story of Hagar and Sarah is a shadow/type of the two integrated topics in Galatians, that […]

Read Reflect What is the true meaning of freedom? Is it a right, the absence of constraints, or liberation from moral absolutes? For the Christian, it’s none of these. Freedom isn’t entitlement or self-indulgence. Nor is it a license to sin. Rather, it’s a sacred trust—a responsibility of the highest order. It’s doing what we […]

Read Reflect I had just walked into the living room of this new friend who still seemed to be a stranger to me. His wife had us sit down in a place where they had laid out blankets on the floor. She then proceeded to serve us hot tea as he shared their recent tragedy. […]