_NO OTHER GOSPEL_ ‘I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you t... [ Continue Reading ]
_‘THAT I MIGHT PREACH HIM’_ ‘It pleased God, … to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him.’ Galatians 1:15 So St. Paul recalls his Divine ordination time, his crisis of consecration to the apostolate, that office which summed up all ministerial orders in it, and out of which they were unfol... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE KEYNOTE OF TESTIMONY_ ‘Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.’ Galatians 1:16 These words are the keynote of the Apostle’s testimony. They describe in one terse sentence his attitude as an apostle of Christ and a teacher of the Gospel. As we carefully ponder his utterances, three... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALONE WITH GOD_ ‘I went into Arabia.’ Galatians 1:17 There is nothing that carries on the soul, and promotes the spiritual life, like secret conversing with God. The great test of every Christian is, what time he can spend in devotion; and, what he is when he is alone with God. How shall we secu... [ Continue Reading ]