1 Corinthians #22 - Alters Not When It Alteration Finds, Part 2
May 7, 2020
When Paul says "love never fails," he's not calling us to an impossible legalistic standard. Of course, we all fail in love on occasion, and those who love us also fail. We can think that love is blind or to be loving is to be naive, but Paul says Jesus' world is one of love, so being loving is seeing life as it really is.
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When we think of love, we tend to think of the head-in-the-clouds folly of a young romantic. Love is for the youthful idealist, someone who has not yet been seasoned by adversity and learned in practice that sometimes strength is more important than affection. Paul teaches that understanding and showing love is part of being a mature Christian.
May 6, 2020
We as Christians will be better at advocating for the Bible, better at defending traditional values, and better at teaching the exclusivity of Christ if our rejoicing in truth is embedded in a 1 Corinthians 13 type of love.
May 5, 2020
Perhaps we should contrast 1 Corinthians 13 to the popular pagan cults of today: "If I speak on the celebrity circuit to thousands but do not have love, I am just the sound of paparazzi flashes going off, or a noisy blog, or a meaningless tweet." Paul teaches about the countercultural beauty of love.
May 4, 2020
As we look at part two of the question "Is the Bible reliable?" we look at secular fake news about the Bible. We need to clear away the confusion and get to our goal of celebrating the Bible's reliability.
May 3, 2020
Here Paul lists several spiritual gifts in a bit of a hierarchy. The key is the signficance of the clarity of the gospel. The most important thing is that people understand it, so he lists the speaking gifts first. All of this needs to be understood in the context of love, submission to one another, and reverence for Christ.
May 1, 2020
We are a body with different members and all are necessary. But unlike in the world where we give special honor to the especially honorable, in the church we do the reverse. The counter cultural aspect of the Christian community is its willingness to honor those who lack honor.
April 30, 2020
Paul is addressing diversity in the Corinthian church. There were rich and poor, Jews and Greeks, slaves and free—very significant divisions within the Greco-Roman culture that were reflected in the church, and yet Paul calls them to unity in the midst of their diversity.
April 29, 2020
We need contentment and rejoicing in what gifts God has given us, rather than wishing we had something else. Make the most of what God has given you, and know that it's all going to fit together in a beautiful orchestra according to God's design and His tune.
April 28, 2020
People throughout history have come to this passage and looked for a precise definition as to what each of these spirutual gifts are. They very often come up with different ideas because it is the wrong question to ask of the passage.
April 27, 2020
There is a lot of religious fake news out there about the Bible. Today we ask "Is the Bible reliable?" We need to have a faith in the Bible that is credible.
April 26, 2020
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One group says the Bible is a book about love, mercy, and kindness. They think of the story of the Good Samaritan and of Jesus telling us to turn the other cheek. So how could anyone think the Bible prevents a tolerant society? But for another group, the Bible is far from tolerant. There’s the conquest of Canaan. There’s Elijah killing Baal’s prophets by his own hand. And in the New Testament, Jesus talks often about hell. That’s not tolerant. What then can we say in answer to this question? Get your free resource and learn more today!