August 2025

READ: Gal. 5:1–6: Stand fast therefore in the liberty … You have become estranged from Christ … you have fallen from grace … faith working through love. Paul addresses, from God’s Word, the core issues at stake: what matters, what is at risk, and the only right path to salvation for the Galatians. He is […]

READ: Gal. 4:26–31: … Cast out the bondwoman and her son … we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free. Paul does not speak about the new Jerusalem that is still to come, but about the Jerusalem that is already in heaven where Christ is seated on His throne as Head of

READ: Gal. 4:21–26: … but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all … Paul points to the contrast that is already present in the Old Testament among the children of Abraham: Ishmael, born of the slave woman Hagar, was not conceived in faith but according to the flesh. He also

READ: Gal. 4:17–20: … they want to exclude you … My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you …  Paul writes about the Judaizers, who are having such a destructive influence on the Galatians. He has no kind words for them. Their intentions are not good. They

READ: Gal. 4:12b–16: … What then was the blessing you enjoyed? … Paul does not want unnecessary distance between himself and the Galatians. He desires to maintain the good relationship they once shared. He is not rejecting the congregation, nor does he take personally the criticism of the Judaizers. Though their criticism is hostile, it

READ: Gal. 4:6–12a: … how is it that you turn again … I urge … Through faith in Christ, sent by God, an entire transformation takes place. Now, through faith, we have become children of God.. This faith is nurtured and strengthened by the indwelling of the promised Holy Spirit through whom we call upon

READ: Gal. 4:1–5: … But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law … Paul again contrasts the two conditions. Because of our sins, we had become slaves, immature children, subjected to the yoke of the law and childish regulations (cf. v.9).

READ: Gal. 3:23–29: … that we might be justified by faith. … all sons of God … for you are all one in Christ Jesus …  The deliverance by Christ followed the period in which God’s people were kept under guard by the law—they were in slavery because fulfilling the law proved impossible. The freedom

READ: Gal. 3:19–22: What purpose then does the law serve?… But if the promise is given by grace to those who believe, what role does the law still have? The law was and is not a path to eternal life—not even alongside the way of free grace. The law cannot cause a person to be

READ: Gal. 3:15–18: … Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made … ‘And to your Seed,’ who is Christ. This passage contains profound words about the covenant God made with Abraham, a covenant that we may share in as Abraham’s children. It clarifies that the covenant God made with us—as a covenant