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the ones i ain't written yet Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, chapter 3, verses 1-9 and 23-29 : Paul’s dealing with Christianity’s original AND perennial problem. And the issue, as you might expect , has to do with willpower . As you probably wouldn’t expect, though, the problem isn’t a lack of willpower. It’s the excessiveness of it!   When it comes to anything , even faith , we always think the motor that’s going to get the whole thing up and running is willpower . As it turns out, though, our efforts are the cold water that puts the fire of the Gospel out every time.   The way it happened for the folks in Galatia was that they were trying to straighten up their lives now that they had found God. And while that may sound well and good, Paul insists their actions were not bearing witness to the Gospel. Instead , they were undermining it. We’re prone think that once we receive a gift, the Gospel included, it’s our job not to blow it. Or, at least, be grateful enough f...

watch me unravel, i'll soon be naked A sermon from Galatians 3 : The moment is as precious , as it is fleeting. It takes everything we have to keep the moment from slipping through our fingers.  And the moment , the present, is all we have!  The past is just that, and the future is never guaranteed. Therefore, we must learn to savor the now , the present. At least, so goes the conventional wisdom. After all, consider the alternatives… To lose the moment, the now, can only mean one thing for us, Death. Capital “D,” Death. The end of it all. This letter of Paul’s that we just read from, then. You know, the one you were daydreaming during the reading of; it ought to terrify you. No doubt it sent a shiver down the spine of the Galatians. As Paul went through everything the Galatians had counted on, only to shout “no longer.” What the Galatians had , Paul looked at in the light of the cross. And in light of that , declared all of it was now gone...