With so much insistence in Galatians on our being right before God through faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, we might well wonder what is the purpose of the law. In Galatians 3:15-29, Paul raised this question and gave a partial answer to it by laying out what is called the first use of the law. As it turns out, the law is not against the gospel but in fact prepares us for and drives us toward faith in Christ.
We concluded our series with I Peter 5:1-14, in which Peter described the three ways in which God cares for his people: through the...
In Jonah 3, we find that God did not give up on Jonah or on the people of Nineveh, which encourages us to believe...
Who would have thought that a book called Numbers would contain interesting stories that are applicable to our lives today? Actually, the Jews call...