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.
Once Jesus ascended on high, he sent the Father's promised Spirit to light up the church and empower her for her mission.
In Jonah 1, we meet the Israelite prophet who preferred to flee rather than obey the Lord’s call to do something new, surprising, and...
God's presence in the early church produced awesome acts of community giving and healing but also an awesome judgment against hypocrisy and deception.