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Resurrection and Kingdom – 1 Corinthians 15:20-28
Rupert Murdoch is handing over the reins of Fox to his sons, Georgia Seipel handed over the reins of Sonoma Drag Racing to her son Kyle, Saddam Hussein was supposedly going to hand over the reins of Iraq
Continue reading...Essential Resurrection – 1 Corinthians 15:12-19
I think he’s missed the boat. At RedeemingGod.com Jeremy Myers responds to the 1980 find of an ossuary find (a bone box in which the remains of deceased family members were reinterred after burial)
Continue reading...The Gospel and Resurrection – 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Randy Alcorn, author of the wonderful book, Heaven, has a short video on what he calls Christoplatonism, ideas of Plato adopted by some in the Christian church, and it seems, by some of the Corinthians,
Continue reading...Gifts and Order – 1 Corinthians 14:26-40
Gordon Fee notes three main views on the part of this passage that talks about women keeping silent in the churches: (1) that Paul is forbidding disruptive speech, (2) that Paul is prohibiting inspired
Continue reading...Speaking Clearly – 1 Corinthians 14:20-25
Luke Cawley has an article, How NOT to Speak Christianese. He writes, “One of the big cultural gaps that distorts the meaning of language is the divide between people grounded in the Christian
Continue reading...Untranslated Tongues – 1 Corinthians 14:1-19
ReligiousAffections.org has a helpful article on 1 Corinthians and its teaching on corporate worship, as well as its teaching on tongues and prophecy. It has, I believe, two main errors. It teaches
Continue reading...Gifts Passing, Love Eternal – 1 Corinthians 13:8-13
When I had only been a believer for a year or so I was confronted by the charismatic movement and speaking in tongues, and was put off by it. I was willing to accept any argument against it. I came
Continue reading...Litany of Love – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with
Continue reading...Love and Value – 1 Corinthians 13:2,3
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. (ESV) My contribution to the world is
Continue reading...Noisy Gong, Clanging Cymbal – 1 Corinthians 13:1
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. (ESV) Increasing my value in the eyes of others competes with God’s calling on my life to
Continue reading...Spiritual Body Parts – 1 Corinthians 12:12-31
MedicalDaily.com has listed 10 body parts that, according to the title of the article, are useless. They mention the appendix, the coccyx, body hair, and wisdom teeth, plus some I’d never heard
Continue reading...Spiritual Gifts – 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
Apostolic.edu has provided a sectarian, yet nonetheless helpful, history of speaking in tongues in the church. They mention in particular the experience among the Quakers and Shakers: Some who attended
Continue reading...Lord’s Supper – 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
It would be wrong to say that Paul did not value the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. But in the first chapter he makes it clear that Christ did not send him to baptize but to preach
Continue reading...Women in Worship – 1 Corinthians 11:1-16
Bruce W. Winter, in his amazing study, Roman Wives, Roman Widows: The Appearance of New Women and the Pauline Communities, writes of the veil that Roman wives were expected to wear: “it can be confidently
Continue reading...Freedom and Idolatry – 1 Corinthians 10:14-33
Did you ever conceive of the gods that pagans worshiped as being demonic spirits posing as deities, Molech, Baal, Asherah, Ra, etc.? Perhaps they even displayed some kind of supernatural actions to secure
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