1 Corinthians - To the Church of God #9 - Marriage and Singleness, Part 1
April 2, 2020
The human longing to find a mate for life is reflected in the constant stream of romantic books and movies. If it sells, we must want to be married, however hard it is to sustain it successfully. Paul speaks in this passage about marriage from his own experience.
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Even with diversity in the church, there are absolutes. There is truth; there is one true gospel. Regardless of your background, there is hope in the gospel of Jesus Christ that declares us righteous.
April 1, 2020
If it was difficult for a Corinthian Christian to stop being sex-mad, it was apparently just as difficult for some of them to stop being so money-mad that they would take other Christians to court over business interests. Sound familiar? How can a church thrive in such a situation?
March 31, 2020
Slander can take the form of reviling those in authority. Reviling is so prevalent in our Western world that we've forgotten that it should not be the norm. We revile politicians, teachers, doctors…and pastors. Instead, we need to speak in a way that is honoring to God.
March 30, 2020
A lot of people think of faith as just a passive belief. Paul says we should look at the life of Abraham to learn about faith.
March 29, 2020
Jesus prayed that his followers would be in the world but not of the world. But the church tends instead to be of the world but not in it. Paul teaches here about boundaries.
March 27, 2020
The situation that many of us are facing is one where we are asking questions about our own worldview, our own faith. We all have some kind of faith. Some of us put our trust in our bank accounts or in science and knowledge or in our families and country. Today's passage touches on the faith of the apostles and the faith of one crippled man.
March 26, 2020
The fear of man is a very prevalent trap today. "What are people saying about me on social media?" It doesn't matter what other people think of you; what ultimately matters is what God thinks of you. The path to freedom is to focus on pleasing God.
March 25, 2020
What do you do when you receive criticism? It's one thing when the criticism is fair—that's difficult to take, but we should receive it and learn from it. But how do you deal with it when it is completely unfair? Paul gives some wonderful teaching on how to handle criticism.
March 24, 2020
The great need of an infantile church like the Corinthians, and the great need of our celebrity, evangelical sub-culture today, is maturity. Paul speaks to the Corinthians about gaining wisdom.
March 23, 2020
The most difficult people to reach are not the disadvantaged or the poor, for they do not find it hard to believe that they will not be justified by their own works. Jesus said it was difficult for a rich man to get into the kingdom of God. Today we study Abraham and his wealth, possessions, and power.
March 22, 2020
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