Galatians: Broken by His Cross, Healed by His Spirit | Desiring God

Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. We’re on a mission to change that. All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ.

Only a New Creation Counts

The mindset of the new creation does not just agree that Christ died for sinners; it glories in the cross.

Do Not Grow Weary in Well-Doing

When you get your paycheck, do you look to the Spirit for how to use this money for God's kingdom?

The Law of Christ

Bearing Each Other's Burdens

If we really care about a person's ultimate welfare, we will confront them with their sin as well as comfort them in their trouble.

Walk by the Spirit!

People who bear the fruit of the Spirit know they are worthy only of condemnation. They know that the only pay they can earn is the wrath of God.

The War Within: Flesh Versus Spirit

The War Within

Flesh Versus Spirit

A Christian is not a person who experiences zero bad desires. A Christian is a person who is at war with every distorted desire by the power of the Spirit.

Freed to Love

Freedom flows forth in love just as surely as a bubbling spring flows forth in a mountain stream.

Saving Faith Produces Love

Being a loving person is absolutely essential to being saved, because the faith which saves by its very essence works through love.

For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free

Your enjoyment of freedom is much more important to God than many of the day-to-day decisions that fill us with so much concern.

Hagar and Slavery Vs. Sarah and Freedom

For Paul, the experience of freedom is not icing on the cake of Christianity. Freedom in Christ is Christianity.

O, That Christ Would Be Formed in You!

We are freed from the burden of the law when we are given the power to fulfill it from within. And that happens when Christ is formed in us.

Don't Go Back from Sonship to Slavery

If Satan can't get you to disobey God's commands, then he'll try to make you obey them with the wrong spirit.

If You Are Christ's, You Are Heirs of the Promise

When you entrust yourself to Christ you honor him, and he would be denying himself to turn you away.

Why Then the Law?

If we don't understand why the law was given, we can kill ourselves with it.

The Law Does Not Annul the Promise

It would be terribly wrong to say that the Mosaic law was opposed in its teaching to the Abrahamic covenant.

Christ Redeemed Us from the Curse of the Law

When Christ experienced the curse of the law on the cross it was not his own but ours.

Those Who Have Faith Are the Sons of Abraham

The central concern of your life is to ensure that you are a child of Abraham.

Can You Begin by the Spirit and Be Completed by the Flesh?

The essential mark of a Christian is not how far you have progressed in sanctification, but on what you are relying to get there.

I Do Not Nullify the Grace of God

The transgression against God is to presume that you can climb your way up a ladder of morality into his favor.

In Sync with the Gospel

When you finally hear and believe the drumbeat of the gospel, the rhythm of your step changes. There is a life in step with the gospel, and there is a life out of step with the gospel.

That the Truth of the Gospel Be Preserved for You

Very few people today stand up and praise the unity and coherence of truth.

This Is Not Man's Gospel

To try to explain the change from Paul's pre-conversion persecution to his post-conversion passion for the gospel merely by the work of men is to grasp at a straw.

When Not to Believe an Angel

When Not to Believe an Angel

There is one, and only one, gospel. It is therefore astonishing — and tragic — to turn away from it and lose both God and his grace.

To Deliver Us from the Present Evil Age

The freest people in the world are those who submit most fully to the authority of Christ in Scripture.