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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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The superiority of the Gospel, parts 1 and 2

Lynne Baab • Thursday April 30 2026

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

Lesson 8: The superiority of the Gospel, parts 1 and 2 (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.

Stepping into the Word

Anna was an obedient child, raised in a family with high expectations. Anna’s mother loved every form of socializing. Anna learned helpful and life-giving skills of hospitality from her mother, but she also learned that appearances really matter. Anna’s mother was slender and fashion conscious, while Anna inherited a stocky build from her father. Anna felt continual...

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Rest in peace, beloved Dave Baab

Lynne Baab • Thursday April 23 2026

My talented artist husband passed through the doorway to the next life on April 9, 2026. His memorial service was live streamed, and the recording is on this webpage.

I wrote a bio of Dave which was printed on a separate page and inserted into the bulletin for the service. I’ll paste it in for you.

Our beloved Dave Baab by Lynne Baab

Dave was born in Wooster, Ohio, 20 minutes after midnight on New Year’s Day, 1946. He was the first baby born in his county—the county’s first Baby Boomer—so he got his photo in the newspaper.

Dave’s father, Hubert, was a machinist who taught...

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Justified by faith not by laws, parts 3 and 4

Lynne Baab • Tuesday April 14 2026

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

Lesson 7: Justified by faith not by laws, parts 3 and 4 (Galatians 2:1-21)

Key verse: “The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20b.

A turning point

Scholars debate which came first, Paul’s letter to the Galatians or the council in Jerusalem, described in Acts 15, when the Jerusalem church decided that Gentile Christians do not have to obey the Old Testament law. Galatians may have been written a few months or a year before the council,...

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