Scripture: 1st Corinthians 14:23-24 If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your mind? But if all prophesy, an unbeliever or outsider who enters is reproved by all and called to account by all. Thought for the Day: I referenced these words in my studies on Wednesday. Though Paul brags
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 14:1 Pursue love, and use your ambition to try to get spiritual gifts but especially so that you might prophesy. Thought for the Day: We could probably spend a week just contemplating those first two words – pursue love. What would it mean to pursue love beyond the usual situations? For Paul, love builds up the community, yet in this one verse, Paul also points
Today’s Devotional was compiled from the words and experiences of the Cypress Creek Youth Group Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:12-14 Just as a body, though one has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body – whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free – and we were all
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. Thought for the Day: After Paul’s beautiful description of what Christ-like love looks like, he transitions into a now and then discussion. Paul, who believes he knows Christ and the
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 12:26-27 If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. Thought for the Day: We are the body of Christ, not for the purpose of hunkering down and protecting ourselves. We are the body of Christ because we are the body of Christ.
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. Thought for the Day: If you want to be practical, here is Paul being practical. You have a concern? Paul will inform you on the subject. Paul speaks about the diversity of gifts, but also the unifying component being the Source of the gifts – God. These gifts are
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 11:14-15 Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair, it is degrading to him, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering. Thought for the Day: Paul, I’m going to have to say a big NO to what you are suggesting. I don’t believe nature teaches that
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 9:25-27 Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one. So I do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as though beating the air; but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified. Thought for the Day: Let’s be honest, athletes do not
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might win those
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 8:9-10 But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. For if others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol, might they not, since their conscience is weak, be encouraged to the point of eating food sacrificed to idols? Thought for the Day: This is part of what might be Paul’s