GALATIANS … “AUTHORITY!”

April 2, 2018 by Dr. Mike Bagwell

Maybe more than anywhere else in all his Epistles, Paul establishes his AUTHORITY as an Apostle when addressing the Galatian Churches. (The Epistle to the Romans may be a close second! But he had never seen those people, most of them anyway, … [Continue reading]

GALATIANS … ITS AUTHOR, HUMANLY SPEAKING

March 31, 2018 by Dr. Mike Bagwell

The first verse in Galatians: "Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) and all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia ...." Yes, Paul nearly always … [Continue reading]

GALATIANS … SOMETHING MISSING?

March 30, 2018 by Dr. Mike Bagwell

Yes, there is! Something missing ... in Galatians. As Paul opens his Epistle to the Galatians, the church congregation about whom he is most unsure of the stability of their faith, he omits a paragraph that appears in nearly all his other … [Continue reading]

GALATIANS … A TRAVEL DAY

March 29, 2018 by Dr. Mike Bagwell

The bridge over the Oho River, actually the Kentucky/Illinois state line as well! I made this snapshot Saturday as we drove north. We will, the Lord willing, see this same bridge from the other side this morning, heading south again. *** I just … [Continue reading]

GALATIANS … WHICH CHURCHES?

March 28, 2018 by Dr. Mike Bagwell

I feel we need to establish (as one does in every Book of the Bible he or she studies) the addressees of the Galatian Epistle. To whom is Paul writing? Two ideas prevail in the theological world. They have been summarized as "the North Galatian … [Continue reading]