Freely Renounce Your Rights-1 Cor 9:15-23
Paul’s play of words. His “pay” is to offter the gospel “without pay” (1 Cor 9:18). He offers the “free” gospel “free of charge” (1 Cor 9:18), so that he is “free of all people” (1 Cor 9:19). […]
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Don’t Use Your Rights-1 Cor 9:1-14
Paul’s remarkable humility. We vociferously demand our rights. Paul had all the rights and credentials as the top apostle, prophet, church planter, missionary, evangelist, shepherd, teacher, philosopher, law scholar and theologian. Today, he’d be a huge megahit celebrity […]
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Love Supersedes Knowledge-1 Cor 8:1-13
Knowledge immersed by love. Christian conduct and behavior is NOT based on knowledge, which can lead to pride and destroy others (1 Cor 8:1-2, 11), but on the way of love (1 Cor 8:3), which is the true way of knowledge (1 Cor 13:2). It’s too easy […]
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Stay Single or Marry-1 Cor 7:36-40
I was single and wanted to marry…it was a long time ago in a galaxy not too far away. But there was no possibility to ever marry, as I was too timid […]
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Single and Serving God-1 Cor 7:32-35
Whether single, engaged, married [widowed or divorced], will you live in undivided and undistracted devotion to Christ (1 Cor 7:35)? If married, do you live as if not married (1 Cor 7:29)? […obviously, while still faithful to […]
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Happily Eschatologically Single-1 Cor 7:25-31
Do you live, think, reason and emote eschatologically? What does being single or married or anything else in life [such as the election results] have to do with eschatology? Let’s learn from Paul why everything has to do with eschatology–whether […]
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Remain with God-1 Cor 7:17-24
Itching to change our human circumstances is our human tendency and default because of FOMO, believing that change would improve our lives. So if you’re smoking, stopping is good. But the converse […]
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No Divorce-1 Cor 7:8-16
Settling down in simplicity. When I married on Aug 15, 1981 less than a year after becoming a Christian, I said to myself, Well I guess thats it for the […]
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Sex in Marriage-1 Cor 7:1-7
Being attracted to an attractive person is not a sin in and of itself. Talking about sex as a Christian is uncomfortable, likely because of the proliferation and easy accessibility of pornography and the widespread acceptance […]
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Your Body is NOT Yours-1 Cor 6:12-20
𝑫𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 OUR BODIES DO NOT BELONG TO US 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆? Im free to do anything is the Corinthian Christians favorite […]