Tag: 1 Corinthians
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Five End-Times Focuses
13Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14Let all that you do be done in love.–1 Corinthians 16 We get closer to the end by the day. Here is how Paul ended his first letter to the church at Corinth. It wasn’t written to us, but here it is for us.…
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Pre-Existence?
46But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.–1 Corinthians 15 Christianity brings the spiritual dimension to physical life. We talk about thing like Heaven and eternity. The most famous verse in the Bible, John 3:16, speaks of everlasting life. So if we who belong to Jesus will…
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Popeye Theology
9For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain…–1 Corinthians 15 Popeye the Sailor Man many years ago made the phrase ‘I yam what…
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Two More Thoughts on Tongues
4The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. 5Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built…
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Sign Gifts
27Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. 29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30Do all possess gifts of healing? Do…
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Imitation
1And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.–1 Corinthians 11 This was finishing Paul’s point. You’ll recognize my favorite verse in there again. I wrote about it yesterday. So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. Don’t give offense to Jews or Gentiles or the…
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Life Verse
31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.–1 Corinthians 10:31 This summer my wife, kids, and I were at a Family Camp weekend up at The Woods camp. https://www.thewoodscamp.org. We were challenged to prayerfully choose a verse of the Bible and make it our family’s…
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Self-Control and Discipline
24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.25Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.26So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating…
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Three Points About Idols
4So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.” 5For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), 6yet for us there is but one…
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Unmarried Investment
32I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs—how he can please the Lord. 33But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife— 34and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord’s affairs: Her…
Joel M Bradshaw 