Advent 2025 Series

Galatians 6:11-18While boasting about ourselves is a sin, but not all boasting is.  The apostle Paul contrasts sinful boasting with God-glorying, Christ-exalting boasting.

Galatians 6:7-10Using a farming metaphor, we’re reminded that we should not deceive ourselves into thinking we can sin with impunity and never face any consequences.  

Galatians 6:1-6

We don’t walk in the Spirit alone, as if the Christian life is just about you and God and no one else; it’s to be done within Christian community, the church.  

Galatians 5:16-26 There’s a war taking place inside of us, a battle between the Spirit of God and our sinful flesh. It’s a war Christians daily engage in as we seek to put off our old selves and put on Christ.

Galatians 5:13-15

The apostle Paul gives us important instructions to make sure that our freedom doesn’t turn into a license for self-imposed slavery.

Galatians 5:1-12

The apostle Paul contrasts slavery to the law with thefreedom we have in Christ.

Galatians 4:21-31

The difference between the law and the promise of the gospel is highlighted by thinking allegorically about the children of Hagar and Sarah.

Galatians 4:8-20

Having sharply rebuked the Galatians for falling for the work-righteousness of the Judaizers, Paul communicates his pastoral care and concern for them.

Galatians 4:1-7 - Joe Martucci, Elder

Galatians 3:15-29

What’s the purpose of the law and how does it relate to God’s promises?  Paul helps us understand the reason why the law was given and its place in preparing us to receive the gospel.

Galatians 3:10-14

The law cannot be obeyed in part and still please God.  If one insists on being justified by works of the law, then it must all be obeyed, perfectly.  Anything short of total obedience results not in salvation, but rather to be under a curse.

Galatians 3:1-6 

Attempting to break the spell they are under, Paul appeals to the Galatians’ personal experience to help them realize that their experience of the blessing of salvation came to them by faith, and not by their obedience to the law.

Galatians 2:17-21 

The apostle Paul highlights the role of the law: not to save us, but to show us our sin and lead us to our Savior.

Galatians 2:15-16

The central message of Christianity stands at the center of this passage: we are saved, not by works we do, but solely by faith in the atoning death of Christ, who suffered the wrath of God in our place.

Galatians 1:10-2:14

Paul provides an extended autobiographical account to show that neither his calling nor his gospel is man-made; rather, he was specially commissioned by the Lord Jesus and sent to proclaim the gospel of grace to the Gentiles.

Galatians 1:6-9

The message is far more important than the messenger!  There is no other gospel than the one given by Jesus and proclaimed by the apostles.

Galatians 1:1-5

Through the opening greeting, the apostle Paul introduces themes that will occur throughout his letter, such as his calling to be an apostle and the core elements of the gospel.

Pastor Glenn Havumaki

Various passages