When It’s Hard to Stand for the Truth
But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews?” (Galatians 2:14) Superficially, it was an argument over […]
Twisting the Good News
Which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. (Galatians 1:7) Paul planted several churches in the Roman province of Galatia on his first few missionary tours. Paul wrote to the Galatian Christians because he was concerned that they had embraced a false message, a […]
Self Examination
Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified. But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified. (2 Corinthians 13:5-6) Paul wanted the believers in Corinth to ask themselves a sobering question: “Is […]