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The superiority of the Gospel, parts 3 and 4

Lynne Baab • Wednesday May 6 2026

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

Lesson 8: The superiority of the Gospel, parts 3 and 4 (Galatians 3:1-18)

Key verse: “Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?” Galatians 3:2b.

Faith always mattered to God

Paul is presenting an idea that may seem foreign to many Christians. Faith always mattered to God, beginning long before Moses received the law on Mount Sinai. Abraham believed that God would provide an offering on Mount Moriah (Genesis 22:1-19, Romans 4), and God was pleased with Abraham’s belief. In the same way, Paul argues, we...

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Draw Near: Praying for trust and prayer as trust

Lynne Baab • Tuesday November 22 2022

If you’ve ever visited Trafalgar Square in London and looked toward the National Gallery, you might have noticed a church off to the right. That is St-Martin-in-the-Fields, where Rev. Samuel Wells is the vicar. He was previously the Dean at Duke University Chapel, and he is one of my favorite columnists in The Christian Century. I love it when he writes about the challenges of serving a church in central London, often full of tourists. I also enjoy his reflections on what our Christian faith looks like in practice.

In a recent column, Rev. Wells argues that there are two kinds of...

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Holy Spirit disruptions: Wait

Lynne Baab • Thursday July 22 2021

Some of Jesus’ disciples are terrified. Jesus has died, his body has disappeared, and some of the other disciples are saying they have seen him alive. The ones who haven’t seen him yet wonder if Jesus has become a ghost, and they don’t know what to do with their questions and strong sense of loss.

Then Jesus appears among them.

When they see him, he does look like a ghost to them, so Jesus asks them to touch him. He requests something to eat, affirming that he’s still living in a body. Then he teaches them from the Old Testament scriptures about the...

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Spiritual diary of sheltering in place: a kite string as a lifeline

Lynne Baab • Wednesday May 20 2020

In a prayer letter about her ministry, a friend of mine described her angst as a teenager. Her sister knew that she wanted to be a teacher, but my friend wasn’t clear on what she wanted to be and do, and she felt shame that her ambitions weren’t clear to her. Toward the end of her college years, God spoke to her in a picture:

“First I saw an arrow and felt God say, ‘See, this is like your sister, keenly focused on a single target that she’ll hit right on the mark.’ Next, I saw a kite swaying in the wind...

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