The Apostle Paul wrote many valuable lessons to the church in Corinth. The church was beginning to get its bearings as a community and struggled with finding how to live out faith in Christ in practical ways and within genuine relationships. His words were meant to encourage and challenge. It was about treating one another better and building a healthy community. Challenging words to bring some things that were fractured back together. Paul relates wisdom about how to approach some difficult matters and how to handle life together.
Because of Jesus, we have been washed completely clean, set apart for God's purposes, and declared just before God. All of these blessings come ...
Singleness and marriage are both gifts from God. Intimacy is indispensable to marriage. When we deny sexual intimacy, we are cheating the marriage.
Passages: 1 Corinthians 15: 12-13; 17-19; 22,44; John 1:12; 8:6,10
Paul in his letter to the Corinthian church wants Christians to consider the claims of Christ and ponder our choice to receive Him as Lord and Savior ...
Passages: 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:8
The Apostle Paul (in 1 Cor. 13) challenges a couple of different paths where the believers have gotten sideways and are missing the "most ...
Passages: 1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1, Ephesians 5:21; Philippians 2:3-5
The Apostle Paul unpacks in (ch. 10) some insights to what true freedom for believers entails. It's a "guided freedom" - a freedom that ...
Passages: 1 Corinthians 1:9; 3:5-12; 6:12; 10:23
Christ set us free to be part of His life-giving community-God is the source and strength of all we produce and we're invited to do something ...
Passages: 1 Corinthians 3:1-15; 1 John 2: 12-14; Ephesians 2:8-10
Maturity is marked more by a weight on relational indicators than performance indicators. Maturity is also marked by our love for God and our ...
Passages: 1 Corinthians 2:1-2; 4:3; 5:3; 6:12; 5:1-5; Galatians 5:14
The Judgment of God is all about worthiness before God. It’s about discerning the deepest motives of the human spirit. It is about having the ...
Passages: 1 Corinthians 1
The colorful church with unique problems relates to our present day churches and how we grow in Christ.