Galatians 3:10-14BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HERE[Please read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Reminder: There will be no daily devotion tomorrow, Sunday. Hopefully, most of you will be i...  Read More

Galatians 3:6-9BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HERE[Please read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Abraham never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ, or of his death and resurrection. All he heard...  Read More

Galatians 3:1-5BIBLE - PASSAGE[Please read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]Nothing (good) can come about by abandoning our faith and choosing to revert to a ritualistic lifestyle o...  Read More

Galatians 2:19-21BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HERE[Please read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]“…so that I could live for God” (v.19); “…so that those who are alive should live not for th...  Read More

Galatians 2:15-18BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HERE[Please read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]The world – including all the religions – and Satan cannot understand how grace works and wh...  Read More

Galatians 2:11-14BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HEREThe scene: the exciting arrival of Jewish Christians from the Jerusalem Church. The result: Peter’s withdrawing from eating with the Galatian (non-Jewish) Ch...  Read More

Galatians 2:9-10BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HEREReminder: There will be no daily devotion tomorrow, Sunday. Hopefully, most of you will be in a House of Worship listening to God yourselves. Go prepared with...  Read More

Galatians 2:6-8BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HERESurprise! God shows no favoritism – whether to the Jewish people (a.k.a. God’s Elect) or to the non-Jew (a.k.a. Gentile). Both are important; therefore, God ca...  Read More

Galatians 2:3-5BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HERE“The truth of the gospel” is that it is God who did all that was needed to redeem us humans from our brokenness and sin, and our alienation from him because of...  Read More

Galatians 2:1-2BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HEREChrist does give each of his followers a distinctive calling (purpose). But we must remember that he gives it to us within the larger context of the church – t...  Read More

Galatians 1:21-24BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HEREIt was the early part of Paul’s ministry, before he started planting churches and writing letters. It was a time when what he was doing was almost unbelievab...  Read More

Galatians 1:16-20BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HEREOur natural reaction when something suddenly happens to us that turns our entire world upside down is to go to someone trustworthy, someone who will understa...  Read More

Galatians 1:15-16BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HERE“But God had set me apart from birth and called me through his grace.” Verse 15 is a “Wow” verse. Paul knew how much he had hurt people, and thereby hurt God...  Read More

Galatians 1:13-15BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HEREIt is interesting that some things we once thought of as proud achievements become occasions of embarrassment and even regret later on. For Paul it was his r...  Read More

Galatians 1:10-12BIBLE PASSAGE- CLICK HEREIt is dangerous when the primary motivation for doing anything is so that people will like us – we become “people-pleasers.” Paul was intentional in keeping J...  Read More

Galatians 1:6-9BIBLE PASSAGE- CLICK HEREIt is easy to listen to and be swayed by someone who is persuasive and convincing, especially if they came with a semblance of religiosity. The danger is that w...  Read More

Galatians 1:2-5BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HERE“Grace and peace” is part of Paul’s greetings in all of his letters – in that order. We know that Grace is God’s unconditional, undeserved, surprising love – m...  Read More

GALATIANS DEVOTIONSBy Rev. Sunil BalasundaramIntroductionThese devotions are based on a letter that Paul wrote to the Galatian Christians. You can read about how Paul planted these churches on his fir...  Read More

Galatians 1:1BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HEREIt is often argued that Paul was the twelfth apostle who replaced Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus and then committed suicide. Paul himself says that his calli...  Read More

James 5:19-20BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HERE(Please read the passage before, or after, reading the devotion.)NOTE: This is the last James devotion. Please look for an announcement for the next devotional s...  Read More

James 5:14-18BIBLE PASSAGE- CLICK HERE(Please read the passage before, or after, reading the devotion.)How does prayer work within a faith community, the church? In saying “they should call for…” (v.1...  Read More

James 5:13BIBLE PASSAGE- CLICK HERE(Please read the passage before, or after, reading the devotion.)James comes to an essential aspect in the “maturity and wholeness” in the life of a follower of Chri...  Read More

James 5:7-12BIBLE PASSAGE- CLICK HERE(Please read the passage before, or after, reading the devotion.)Patience is one fruit of the Spirit that needs to be nurtured. It doesn’t happen overnight. This t...  Read More

James 5:1-6BIBLE PASSAGE - CLICK HERE(Please read the passage before, or after, reading the devotion.)James can be brutally honest when he writes, but he does so just as Jesus did – in love. He moves ...  Read More