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Communal discernment of the heart of the Gospel, parts 1 and 2

Lynne Baab • Thursday May 28 2026

Overall theme for the next few months: God’s law is love

Lesson 9: Communal discernment of the heart of the Gospel, parts 1 and 2 (Acts 15:1-21)

Key verse: “God, who knows the human heart . . . has made no distinction between them and us.” Acts 15:8-9

Stepping into the Word

Communal decision-making is seldom easy. Families who try to decide together about the location for a vacation know this. Anyone who has participated in committee meetings at work or at church has experienced this.

Kerry and Jamie serve on the board of their church, and they have found that they frequently have different perspectives. Kerry, a long...

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Keeping the law inwardly, parts 3 and 4

Lynne Baab • Tuesday March 17 2026

Overall theme for the next few months: God’s law is love

Lesson 5: Keeping the law inwardly, parts 3 and 4 (Romans 2:12-29, parts 1 and 2 are here)

Key verse: Real circumcision is a matter of the heart — it is spiritual and not literal. Romans 2:29

3. Faith and Actions

Christians have long debated the relationship between faith and actions. The apostle Paul has already noted in Romans 1:17, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.” Our actions still matter, as Paul will explain in Romans 6:1-14. In Romans 2, Paul is laying a foundation for the significance of our actions by indicating that what...

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Keeping the law inwardly, parts 1 and 2

Lynne Baab • Tuesday March 10 2026

Overall theme for the next few months: God’s law is love

Lesson 5: Keeping the law inwardly (Romans 2:12-29)

Key verse: Real circumcision is a matter of the heart — it is spiritual and not literal. Romans 2:29

1. Stepping into the Word

Sometimes we talk about obeying the letter of the law but not its spirit. Sarah can remember coming home as a teenager before her curfew in order to obey the letter of her parents’ law, but after they were asleep she snuck out again. They had never told her not to go back out after coming home! She had come home at the right...

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Draw near: Tune our hearts

Lynne Baab • Tuesday August 2 2022

Come, thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace; streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount I'm fixed upon it mount of God's redeeming love.

Robert Robinson was 22 years old when he penned those words in 1758 as a hymn for Pentecost. He was in transition from his work as a hairdresser in London to the preacher he would become. Notice the two things this verse asks for: “tune my heart to sing thy grace,” and “teach me some melodious sonnet sung by flaming tongues above.” Jesus’s...

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