In the final of the seven letters in Revelation 3:14-22, Jesus addressed the church in Laodicea, which had no redeeming qualities. He described the church as lukewarm. It is remarkable that Jesus explicitly expressed his love, humbled himself to show his love, and promised the most exalted privileges to this, the worst of the seven churches. In other words, this letter shines with God’s grace and love toward sinners.
With so much insistence in Galatians on our being right before God through faith in Christ and not by the works of the law,...
Our little work of accepting each other in the church is part of the big work God is doing in the world.
In order to understand marriage, we need to go back to the creation of the woman in Genesis 2:18-25.