Our lives are all too often ruled by unchecked fears.  Paul offers a powerful strength left dormant to combat this insidious limiter.  Through this edition of TCD we endeavor to define what this strength is, where it comes from, and how we can access it to embolden and enable ourselves...

Paul beautifully pairs our own shortcomings with God's patience, redemption, and plan for our lives.  He reminds the Ephesians, and us, that despite our penchant for disobedience, God diligently waits for us to surface from our self-generated complications so He can re-direct our blind attempts to manifest truly positive impacts...

Are we in the right place?  Is it simply by chance that we have arrived and find ourselves in the midst of what we are facing today?  Paul's answer is direct; we are all here as part of the plan.  Our lives are not merely random or a mistake, but important enough to be included and planned for from the start...

In this, the final chapter of Galatians, Paul challenges us to understand our unique nature and to intentionally approach our lives with that knowledge.  He reminds us along the way that life is a function of what and where we contribute, and outlines practical insights for success... 

Paul asserts that we have already achieved true Freedom thanks to Christ.  However, we regularly yield this gifted Freedom to pursue base desires and in doing so unnecessarily complicate our lives and permanently decrease our future capacity for Freedom.  Paul challenges us to understand that true Freedom is not the absence of rules, order or consequence, but a free and clear mind, which springs from an unencumbered life...

We continue our tour of Galatians with Chapter 4.  Paul spends the majority of the chapter using slavery as an allegory to help the Galatians, and us, understand what our relationship with God is like.  We aren't mere peons toiling and mindlessly carrying out the orders of some unseen master,  but adopted heirs privileged to experience a relationship and blessed with an inheritance...

Continuing our exploration of Paul's Letters, we find Paul correcting the Galatian Church for straying from the message by incorrectly focusing on the rules vice the relationship.  Paul drives them towards the realization that: As 'good' as we may be, we will always come up short of perfect, which isn't hopeless only because Christ closes that gap for us...