Daily Devotions

“Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you.  And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that…

“It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5:1). For freedom is what…

“So then, brethren, we are not children of a bondwoman, but of the free woman” (Galatians 4:31). Christ has overcome sin, death, and the devil.  When you by baptism are…

“And you brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.  But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the…

“For it is written, “Rejoice, barren woman who does not bear; Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor; For more numerous are the children of the desolate…

“Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.  But the Jerusalem above is free; she is…

“This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants: one proceeding from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar” (Galatians 4:24). What Paul is…

“But the son by the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise” (Galatians 4:23). God has shown the means by…

“Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law?  For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman and…

“My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you –  but I could wish to be present with you now and to change my…