Someone planted pecan trees on the Southwestern Seminary campus in the 1930s. They never met me. They never knew I’d be there. But eighty years later, seminary students were picking up pecans from those trees to feed their families. That’s the law of the harvest — and Paul says God built it into more than just crops.
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We have moved a lot over the years. And every time, there was a piano. And every time, I convinced myself I could move it alone. I never could.
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A cow that breaks through a fence isn’t free — she’s lost. Paul’s warning in Galatians 5 is that Christian freedom works the same way: without the Spirit, it doesn’t lead somewhere better. It just leads somewhere dangerous.
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Paul’s command in Galatians 5:1 is not “try harder.” It’s “stand firm.” There’s a world of difference — and getting it wrong is exactly the yoke Paul is warning us to put down.
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Growing up in Mississippi, my family moved around a lot — but there was always one place that felt like home: my grandparents’ house. My grandfather was a deacon at…
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Five hundred years ago, a young monk in Germany was doing everything religion required of him — and still had no peace. His name was Martin Luther, and the book that changed his life was Galatians. The same temptation that tormented Luther is still alive today, and Paul has something to say about it.
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