After four chapters of telling us what Christ has done for us and urging us to have faith in him alone in order to be right before God, Paul turned in Galatians 5:1-15 to explain the main thing that faith produces in our lives, which is love. While we are saved by faith alone, faith is itself never alone in the lives of believers but always accompanied by love.
Four short parables point to the surpassing value of the kingdom of God and the need to find it now.
After the Lord rejected Saul as king, he chose a man with a heart oriented toward the Lord.
Because God had fulfilled one of his promises to Abraham by making his descendants a great nation, the next announcement of the Covenant of...