Jennifer Bales

Gospel Gal: Our Whole Salvation (Calvin) : "We see that our whole salvation and all it's parts are comprehended in Christ. We should therefore take care not to derive the lea...

Gospel Gal: Purity Culture And a Real-life Redemption Story : Last week Joy and I had a great conversation with Jennifer Moodie. We discussed the Purity Culture, how it has impacted us, and the way the ...

Gospel Gal: Gospel Gal Hot-Take #2: "Stop Complaining": Lament... : My friend Vanessa recently sent me a short YouTube posted by Todd Friel of Wretched. The clip was part of a sermon from John MacArthur's...

Gospel Gal: MamaBear Monday with Gospel Gal: Gender Role or Id... : MamaBear Monday with Gospel Gal:  Gender Role or Identity in Christ Marissa Namirr, Joy Dudley, & Guest Contributor, Kat Andrich Earlier...

Gospel Gal: Disabilities, Ableism, and the Hope of the Gospel:... : Joy and I had the privilege of talking with a friend and returning guest to the Gospel Gal Podcast, Cassaundra Wolf. Cassaundra has a uniqu...

Gospel Gal: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will e... : Many of us have been scared spitless at some point in our spiriutal histories by the warning passage when Jesus is disavowing the false prof...

Gospel Gal: Only One :   There is only one Gospel that is the power of God unto salvation. It is Christ's work. Full stop. That is a hill to die on. See Galat...

Sanctification is a beautiful grace from God in which, He transforms us more and more into the image of Christ. It should never be used as the sole measure of our justification and assurance. When a believer is united to Christ by faith alone, Christ is to them “wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption” 1st Corinthians 1:30. “Moreover, although we do good works we do not base our salvation on them; for we cannot do any work that is not defiled by our flesh and also worthy of punishment. And even if we could point to one, memory of a single sin is enough for God to reject that work. So we would always be in doubt, tossed back and forth without any certainty, and our poor consciences would be tormented constantly if they did not rest on the merit of the suffering and death of our Savior” Belgic confession - Article 24

Ignorance of the difference between the law and the gospel promotes also, in a great degree, the strength and influence of a self-righteous temper. When a man is driven to acts of obedience by the dread of God’s wrath revealed in the law, and not drawn to them by the belief of His love revealed in the gospel; when he fears God because of His power and justice, and not because of His goodness; when he regards God more as an avenging Judge than as a compassionate Friend and Father; and when he contemplates God rather as terrible in majesty than as infinite in grace and mercy, he shows that he is under the dominion, or at least under the prevalence, of a legal spirit. If he builds his faith of the pardon of sin, of the favor of God, and of eternal life upon any graces which he supposes are implanted in him, or upon any duties which are performed by him, he is evidently under the power of the self-righteous temper. He shows that he is under the influence of his hateful temper by grounding ...

Gospel Gal: Jesus is the Fulfillment : Jesus is the fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant (Covenant of Grace) These are some helpful and comforting truths gleaned from John Fonvil...

So just a quick reminder here: The "dominion mandate" - be fruitful and multiply and have dominion - was given to our first parents, Adam and Eve. It was related to the kingdom of God. Adam and Eve were to fill the earth with image-bearers of God as vice-regents of the King. They failed and the whole world fell into the bondage of sin. Satan usurped the kingdom, holding the world in bondage through the fear of death. But Jesus, the second Adam, broke that power through death by his resurrection. He ascended into heaven, having been given power over all things. He is even now spreading his kingdom through the proclamation of the gospel and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It is not of this earth and is not spread with the weapons and strategies of this earth. He established the kingdom of God, binding the "Strong man" and plundering his kingdom through the proclamation of the Gospel. The "dominion mandate" is not fulfilled by "kingdom fecundity...