Langdon Palmer

Where is the good life found? For some people it is in being able to say "I lived by my principles, my code of ethics." For others it is in being able to say "I grabbed as much as I could and experienced most of what this life offers." In Galatians, Paul offers a third way. But it is a subtle path that easily gets overgrown with the weeds of simplistic thinking and therefore missed. In the complicated scripture we look at today, Paul makes a number of different arguments to explain the relationship of the law to the gospel. This is not easy stuff - it requires careful thinking. But we are not interested in Hallmark Card Christianity, short simple pithy statements. We want the real thing. Join us as we go through Paul's argument step by step and end up at the other end with an image that can permanently help us understand the relationship between the free gift of the gospel and the covenant of right behavior that the ten commandments call us to.