Rooted in Grace, Reconciled in Christ

Psalm 1 imagines life as a tree planted by streams, flourishing through delight in God’s instruction. Philemon, meanwhile, faces the test of that rootedness: can he extend reconciliation to Onesimus at personal cost? Together, the psalm’s rooted stability and Paul’s appeal to risky grace show that true life in God’s word always presses into embodied mercy.

Deut 30:15–20; Psalm 1; Philemon 1–21; Luke 14:25–33