That our freedom and salvation depend on God’s promise, not our performance is good news to those who know they are enslaved by sin and want to be set free, but it is challenging news to those who either feel they are already good enough or don’t agree with the Bible’s morality. Since they don’t

Freedom is connected to our faith. The word “faith” appears 12 times in today’s reading. Paul emphasized that it is faith in Christ that truly sets us free, not our own works of the law. In the apostle Paul’s letter to the Galatian churches, he told them that true freedom came not by works of

The reason many people are not receiving the good news that sets us free today, is because they really haven’t heard the true gospel, or they heard it and received it, but then fell back into living by self-effort. This is what was happening to the Galatians. They had heard the true gospel from Paul,

Are you free from slavery to sin? Have you received the grace of Christ which sets you free from sin and sin’s result, which is death? Some have never received this grace and that’s the good news for today. You can be set free because of God’s grace, His free gift of salvation. Many others

Most of us want to feel like we have accomplished something, like the work we do is actually reaching some objective. We all want to be great at something and be thought of as influential. We want to look back on our lives and believe that we truly contributed to something of value. In the

Marriage is that wonderful union designed and declared by our Creator God for our good. But it doesn’t always feel so good does it? Two people, uniquely different, trying to be one unified family for life. Facing all the internal challenges of dealing with differing opinions, goals, and dreams and all the while facing the

We face things in our lives as a family that can cause disunity. Sometimes it is the way we handle external circumstances and adversity that drives us apart. Sometimes it is our own internal conflict that makes us difficult to be with. We build walls between family members one brick at a time. Maybe it’s

Why don’t we see the oneness that God intended at creation and that Christ came to give with our salvation? Why are so many families and marriages fractured and broken? One of the main problems is poor communication. Families and marriages today often have terrible communication. Poor communication is a threat to oneness. Your family

When we look at today’s family, the statistics can be troubling. Many families have become broken and far from God’s design. How can these statistics be reversed? One heart and one family at a time. In the book of Ephesians, the apostle Paul prayed that believers would experience God’s blessing on the family. We can