Scripture: 1st Corinthians 6:20 For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body. Thought for the Day: So often in scripture when we see the words “bought” or “ransomed” to describe what Jesus has done, we think of his love act saving us from something. But the larger passage of 1 Corinthians 6 is about a changed life – it is about becoming something
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 6:1 When any of you has a grievance against another, do you dare to take it to court before the unrighteous, instead of taking it before the saints? Thought for the Day: The church needs to deal with church issues in church ways before church people. The problem is that the church, for whatever reason, doesn’t always follow those steps. Instead, the church goes outside
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 5:6-8 Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch, as you really are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed. Therefore, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil,
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 4:16-18 I appeal to you, then, be imitators of me. For this reason I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, as I teach them everywhere in every church. But some of you, thinking that I am not coming to you, have become arrogant. Thought for the Day: Paul suggested
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 4:1 Think of us in this way, as servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries. Thought for the Day: Paul uses two important words in this passage – Servant and Steward. Interesting, though, is that the word we translate as servant is not the one we have seen before (Jan. 14), but one that Paul only uses this one time. It describes the under
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 3:16-17 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. Thought for the Day: Paul begins these verses with a question that is in fact a rebuke of sorts. It could even contain a hint of sarcasm, almost
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 3:5-6 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. Thought for the Day: If you remember from Sunday, the community in Corinth had splintered over different issues, and in doing so, had forgotten the oneness of the church. People were saying, “I belong Apollos;
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 3:1-3 And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready, for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 2:12-14 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual. Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 2:1-2 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. Thought for the Day: For Paul, the cross is a terribly complicated and confusing concept. It was, most definitely, the greatest stumbling block for him even