Sermons on Galatians

The Galatians received the Spirit through faith, yet tried to grow by effort. Christ’s cross frees Christians from both pride and despair.

Christians still battle sin, but the Spirit produces one fruit of love, joy, peace and self-control in everyone who belongs to Christ.

The Holy Spirit moves God's adopted children to cry out to God as Father, so they need not earn His love and can worship freely and honestly.

God alone passes between split animals, taking responsibility for His promise; when Abraham's family fails, Christ bears the curse in His own blood.

The Holy Spirit takes every believer’s groan to the Father, shaping painful cries into hopeful prayer as He makes them more like Jesus.

A weed growing through concrete pictures the Spirit's work against sin, assuring those who belong to Christ that slow change will continue.

Paul persecuted the church until God called him by grace. His story gives Christians a pattern for naming who they were and what God did.

Helpless swimmers need a rescue rope, not a better manual. Christ's work saves sinners, while added requirements reverse the good news of grace.

Christians begin by receiving the Spirit, not human effort. Christ's cross keeps reshaping fear, anger and guilt as they rest in His acceptance.

God does more than clear believers of guilt. Through Christ, He adopts former slaves as His children and opens the way to honest prayer.

Peter feared people and withdrew from non-Jewish believers. Faith in Christ ends rankings because His death, not our effort, makes sinners acceptable.

Helping a neighbour trapped in repeated sin carries their burden. Christ’s cross frees people to serve with humility rather than compare and condemn.

Christlike character grows gradually, like fruit on a living tree. Belonging to Jesus loosens the grip of desires that pose as saviours.

Christ breaks the yoke of earning God’s favour and frees His people to stand firm in grace, as faith expresses itself through love.

Barren Sarah receives the son God promised, showing that His grace gives a future to helpless people who cannot make themselves right with Him.

God used Paul’s illness and the resulting detour for good. In Galatia, this showed why ministry shaped by grace must remain humble and flexible.

Jesus does more than free slaves from the law's debt. He brings them home as God's children, and His Spirit enables them to cry, Abba, Father.

God's law exposes sin like a window reflects our face, then directs our gaze to Christ, so obedience grows from gratitude rather than fear.

Christ takes the law's curse on the cross for sinners. His Spirit changes them as they rest in grace rather than trying harder.

Peter once ate with Gentile believers, then withdrew under pressure. Justification by faith makes Jewish culture no test of acceptance before God.

The apostles welcomed Titus, a Greek who was not circumcised, defending gospel freedom from cultural rules that divide people rather than save them.

Paul persecuted Christians, but Jesus changed his life, showing that nobody is too good to need grace or too bad to receive it.

A drowning person needs a rope, not swimming instructions; Jesus gave Himself to rescue helpless sinners, leaving no room for performance or pride.