Posts Tagged: Galatians

New Testament Hermeneutics and Poetics

Where in the Bible is Poetry

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Protestant biblical theology requires a rigorous historical as well as grammatical exegetical approach and a disciplined typological method. – J. I. Packer The greatest crisis in the early life of the apostolic church was clearly the challenge to the gospel of free grace represented by the Judaizers, the controversy which necessitated the first ecumenical council at Jerusalem (Acts 15:1-3). Paul’s epistle to the Galatians represents… Read more »

Wounds of the Apostle Paul

Where in the Bible is Suffering

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“I bear on my body the marks of Jesus” Galatians 6:17 There is a pattern to our sufferings in this life. For Christians, no hurtful wound is merely random or meaningless. It is the goodness of God’s providence that makes our sorrows meaningful, for suffering always precedes glory, as the Savior said of his own wounding (Luke 24:26). Paul encouraged the little, struggling church in… Read more »