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Keeping the law inwardly, parts 1 and 2

Lynne Baab • Tuesday March 10 2026

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

Lesson 5: Keeping the law inwardly (Romans 2:12-29)

Key verse: Real circumcision is a matter of the heart — it is spiritual and not literal. Romans 2:29

1. Stepping into the Word

Sometimes we talk about obeying the letter of the law but not its spirit. Sarah can remember coming home as a teenager before her curfew in order to obey the letter of her parents’ law, but after they were asleep she snuck out again. They had never told her not to go back out after coming home! She had come home at the right...

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Praying about the flow of time: Why Lent matters

Lynne Baab • Tuesday March 25 2025

Do you know the word “chiaroscuro”? It came to English from Italian 300 years ago. In Italian, it means light-dark. For visual artists and those who love visual art, chiaroscuro matters a lot. Dark sections of a painting make the light places stand out. Take a look at the painting by my beloved husband, Dave, that illustrates this post. The painting would lose its punch without the dark sections. All paintings need contrast, even ones that aren’t as dramatic as the one I chose for this post.

I have come to believe that the concept of chiaroscuro can help us look at...

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Bonus post: Dave Baab’s philosophy of watercolor sketching

Lynne Baab • Sunday November 13 2022

I get a lot of kind and encouraging compliments about my blog posts. Many of them go like this: “Lynne, I really enjoy your blog. You write good stuff, but your husband’s watercolors are outstanding, amazing, wonderful! He is so talented!” One friend said he enjoys trying to figure out why I choose the watercolor for each post. I truly love that so many of you enjoy his art so much, and I’m happy to have a sense of teamwork with Dave in these blog posts.

Dave has an art exhibition going on right now at our church, Bethany Presbyterian in Seattle,...

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Draw near: Tune our hearts

Lynne Baab • Tuesday August 2 2022

Come, thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace; streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount I'm fixed upon it mount of God's redeeming love.

Robert Robinson was 22 years old when he penned those words in 1758 as a hymn for Pentecost. He was in transition from his work as a hairdresser in London to the preacher he would become. Notice the two things this verse asks for: “tune my heart to sing thy grace,” and “teach me some melodious sonnet sung by flaming tongues above.” Jesus’s...

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