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Posted in 1Corinthians on Apr 28th, 2007 |
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Learn how to take freedom to a new level of enjoyment through Agape Love: “give up your rights!” It is a sacrileges thought in our rights-conscious minds, but such free-will sacrifice is close to God’s heart, and it [...]
Posted in 1Corinthians on May 5th, 2007 |
“Run in such a way as to win,” Paul says. This is beyond Christianity 101: “What matters most is faith working through love!”
It means treating relationships seriously, with goals in mind. It’s the difference between winners and losers.
Posted in 1Corinthians on May 12th, 2007 |
The stakes are high as we race through life. God offers a way to win for a lifetime…or, we can fall by our own strength. Starting in chapter 9 where Paul compares the “winners” against “losers” in a race, Paul now dives into the Old Testament to demonstrate what this looks like: it’s the difference [...]
Posted in 1Corinthians on Jun 2nd, 2007 |
The early church was astonishing in its growth and excitement, despite persecution. Paul provides a glimpse of the contagious home church movement that swept the Roman Empire, and these principles are timeless: we can (and should!) bring this infectious power into our local churches!
Posted in 1Corinthians on Jun 16th, 2007 |
We are emotional beings and spiritual beings. Real spirituality yields a rich emotional life, and Paul describes how it’s done. How do you build such a rewarding spiritual, while still avoiding spiritual excess?
Posted in 1Corinthians on Jun 23rd, 2007 |
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Are you a loner? For a Christian, it’s unnatural. Christ placed us uniquely into a whole body, and what a beautiful design it is!
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“Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,” the Bible says (Eph. [...]
Posted in 1Corinthians on Jun 30th, 2007 |
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Beckett’s famous play depicts the emptiness of a life always spent waiting and waiting “for Godot”. It was a critique of the Christians wasted their lives waiting for a future that never comes.
But the opposite should be true: Christ has established us in the here-and-now world of [...]
Posted in 1Corinthians on Jul 7th, 2007 |
It has to be one of the most famous and poetic sections in the Bible:
“And now, I will show you a most excellent way…Without love I am nothing.”
But it’s more than poetry. Paul demonstrates the practical outcome of all he’s been building until now. We have many different gifts and activities (or ministries), but the [...]
Posted in 1Corinthians on Jul 21st, 2007 |
What Paul reveals in this chapter is nothing short of astounding: the inner-workings of love, as designed by God. In doing so he reveals the inner-workings of God:
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also [...]
Posted in 1Corinthians on Aug 11th, 2007 |
The empty tomb is an enduring symbol of the resurrection, and the ultimate symbol of who Jesus Christ is…and most important, His claim to be God! It’s a completely unique, incomparable, outrageous claim! Yet there it is. The Bible states it clearly and unambiguously.
People generally don’t mind “the message of the cross” today. There isn’t [...]
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