Sermons from 2015

STUDY GUIDE In-Your-Face GRACE! – Paul’s Letter to the GALATIANS Message 8 October 4, 2015 1. Read Galatians 2:20. How many times in this one verse does Paul use the first person singular pronoun – either “I” or “me”? Consider the importance of your personal relationship with Jesus Christ to your effectiveness as a member of the body of Christ? What happens to your relationships with other Christians and with the church as a whole if your own relationship with…

STUDY GUIDE In-Your-Face GRACE! – Paul’s Letter to the GALATIANS Message 7 September 27, 2015 1. Read Galatians 2:11-21, then re-read verses 15-21. Verses 15-21 continue Paul’s rebuke of Peter that started in verse 14. Paul exposed Peter’s hypocrisy in very practical terms in verse 14. Peter had contradicted his own beliefs and message with his actions – and that had the effect of CHANGING his message to the eyes and ears of the people who were paying attention to…

STUDY GUIDE In-Your-Face GRACE! – Paul’s Letter to the GALATIANS Message 6 September 20, 2015 1. Read Galatians 2:11-21, then re-read verses 11-14 (we’ll be camping out in those 4 verses this Sunday). Verse 11 begins with the word “But,” which introduces a major shift in Paul’s narrative of events. What had been the very encouraging outcome of Paul’s meeting with the leaders of the mostly-Jewish church in Jerusalem recorded in the first half of this same chapter (Galatians 2:1-10)?…

STUDY GUIDE In-Your-Face GRACE! – Paul’s Letter to the GALATIANS Message 5 September 13, 2015 1. Read Galatians 2:1-10. How long after Paul’s conversion (described in 1:11-24) did this second visit to Jerusalem occur? BEFORE this second visit, how much time had Paul spent in Jerusalem? [See 1:15-24.] How are these facts significant to Paul’s assertion that both his apostleship and his gospel were not from men, but from Jesus Christ (1:1, 11)? 2. According to Galatians 2:2, what prompted…