You cannot choose your family. I can’t just decide one day that I’m fed up with my parents and brothers and sisters and exchange them somewhere for some others. I can’t pick up the scissors and simply cut the ties between my brother and sister and say that I no longer have any family. Even […]
Read moreIt seems to me from an Old Testament point of view that the people were actually afraid of God. It’s as if they saw God as an angry teacher walking about with a cane in his hand, looking for places where people were doing wrong so that He could punish them. Our image of God, […]
Read moreMy son came running in, very excited about a picture he found on Pinterest. It’s a picture of two mountains – God on one side and man on the other. There’s a big valley between the two and man can’t reach God. But the next picture shows Jesus’ cross lying across the valley and forming […]
Read moreDuring the Woordfees in our town there were, as usual, many heated debates about many topics under the sun. Philosophers thought and talked long about many difficult subjects. Politicians tried to see where the problem in our country originated and suggested a few quick solutions. Then theologians joined in and questions were asked like did […]
Read moreWe must remember that the people Paul was targeting here were very different. They were young Christians and could not understand and believe everything when they heard it for the first time. It is also necessary that we should often hear that familiar message again because through the noise of the world and the ego […]
Read morePaul repeated many of the primary truths to the Galatians, because they listened to other people so easily and eventually invalidated Jesus’ death on the cross. They relapsed and said that the law was the only way in which you could get to God. When you live under the law only, you live in fear […]
Read moreThe reason for writing this letter appears in the pericope. Paul is extremely upset about the Galatian congregations. They listened well to the message that he had proclaimed to them. They were so happy to accept the message. But then they turned their backs and Paul confronted them straight on: 6I can’t believe your fickleness—how […]
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