Posts from 2016

The churches of Galatia, to whom Paul is writing in his letter to the Galatians, were the churches that Paul planted on his first missionary journey in the cities of Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, Derbe. You can read about it in Acts 13-14, and you can see it below. Thanks to David Barrett (biblemapper.com) for the great map! The question of how the timeline of Galatians 1:11-2:14 fits into the narrative of the book of Acts is a very difficult question. Since…

This Sunday we will be starting a new sermon series through Paul’s letter to the Galatians. In Galatians, Paul passionately defends the gospel of God’s grace against those who would distort it by suggesting that our justification before God comes in part by our own righteousness, instead of solely through faith in what Christ has done (Galatians 2:16). “Justification by faith”, then, is the main doctrine dealt with in Galatians. It is at the heart of the Christian message, and can’t…