Kiera Spilman joins us to talk about how children and families will be incorporated in the church's plan to go chronologically through the New Testament in a year.
Paul compares children of the promise (Sarah) and children of slavery (Hagar). One tried to help God. One was miraculously helped by God.
Paul is a spiritual father to the Galatian Church. He anguishes over their spiritual lives and longs to see Christ formed in them. He warns of the dangers of turning back to our old former ways of living and urges them to stay strong in their faith in the gospel of Jesus.
Paul uses language connected to Roman manumission (freeing a slave) and adoption to build a connection between those ceremonies that the Galatians would have been familiar with and the objective status change that comes from starting to follow Jesus (sybolized by baptism) as well as the subjective experience of what that's like.
We chat with Rick Stufflebeem about various facility updates. Plus, Topical Top Off, and Cutting Room Floor segments.
The law shows us our sin and reveals our need for a Savior. Jesus is the ONE seed from Abraham that perfectly fulfilled the law and brought forgiveness of sin through his life, death on the cross and resurrection.
Followers of Jesus are not to live in slavery, but by the Spirit through faith, which leads to Gospel freedom!
Paul confronts Peter about hypocrisy and living like a Gentile but forcing others to live like Jews. He gets back to the true Gospel that we are only justified by faith in Christ Jesus.
This passage shows us that it's too easy to fall into either extreme: adding too much to the Gospel and ending up in legalism and slavery, or not holding firmly enough to the Gospel and allowing it to be twisted or watered down. Gospel freedom isn't a middle path, but a third path.
Jesus changes people, plans, and purpose. We exist for a reason, to know God and make him known. Let the Lord direct your steps instead of planning your ways.
Paul gives us brief, worshipful, greeting to the Galatian church and then dives right into the ways that some have distorted the gospel. Jesus is the only way to salvation. Don’t distort the gospel.
How Bethel seeks to fulfill our mission statement in our unique calling as a church to the Galesburg community, especially when it comes to "making disciples".
Nicole Giza talks with Stephanie Fogerty and Amy Oxley about Mom2Mom, the upcoming Abide Women's Conference in the fall, the Pastor's wives' feelings about the co-Pastor situation, and how to encourage moms.
What does it mean to build your faith on a foundation of surrender to Jesus Christ? It is a life built on dependence and relationship with our Savior.
We chat with Charlie Bailey about the co-pastor proposal and respond to some common questions. We also recap some of the most recent meetings and offer new insights. Plus "Back in My Day" and "Cutting Room Floor" segments.
Jesus tells a parable about a servant who is ready and prepared for when his master returns. The church today must be ready for the return of Christ. If you are drowsy in your spiritual life then pray and ask God to wake you up.