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IV.Did you notice – “What would you prefer? Am I to come to you with a stick or with love in a spirit of gentleness?” How do you hear that? How do you think the Christian community in Corinth heard … Continue reading
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I.In this passage Paul asks the Christian community at Corinth to think of himself, Apollos and Timothy as – “… servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries.” What do you hear Paul telling you about “servants” and “stewards”? II.1 … Continue reading
VII.Let’s go back to Paul’s request that the folk, “Consider your own call … “ How might his thoughts on “wisdom” and “foolishness” give us insight on our call to be “in Christ Jesus”? VIII.1 Corinthians 1:18-31 (New Revised Standard … Continue reading
IV.Let’s begin today by considering Paul’s statement, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” As you spend time with this passage, pay attention to how wisdom and foolishness are described. V.1 … Continue reading
I.Notice Paul’s direction to the the recipients of his letter, “Consider your own call …” (1 Corinthians 1:26) Couple that with his earlier statement, “… to those who are called…” (1 Corinthians 1:24), I take it that Paul considered these … Continue reading
You can read this week’s Scripture in both the New Revised Standard Version and The Message at –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2016%3A11-15%2C%2040%2C%201%20Corinthians%201%3A26-30&version=NRSV;MSG VI.Let’s focus on the passage from 1 Corinthians – 1 Corinthians 1:26-30 Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of … Continue reading
You can read this week’s Scripture in both the New Revised Standard Version and The Message at –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2016%3A11-15%2C%2040%2C%201%20Corinthians%201%3A26-30&version=NRSV;MSG IV.Within days of the arrival of Paul and his companions in Philippi (apparently an important city of the region and the Empire) … Continue reading
I. With this week’s Scriptures we come to the end of one series of lessons that began the last Sunday in January and another that began the first Sunday in December. In December we began reflecting on a set of … Continue reading
A link for this week’s Scripture passage –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20corinthians%2013&version=NRSV;NIV;LEB;KJV VI.In this Scripture passage we read first of what cannot supplant love (vv 1-3), then it speaks to the behaviors of love (vv 4-7) and finally the completeness of love (vv 8-13). … Continue reading
Here are several translations of 1 Corinthians 13 –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20corinthians%2013&version=NRSV;NIV;LEB;KJV IV.“It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” 1 Corinthians 13:7 V.Several years ago I was reading a book (sorry, right now I don’t recall the … Continue reading