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
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 7:18-19 Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but obeying the commandments of God is everything. Thought for the Day: Can I confess something? I laugh each time I come across
Scripture: 1st Corinthians 7:3-4 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Thought for the Day: We come across these words, and for most people in our modern age,
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,