April - 2016

"Therefore my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourself fully to th

This comes at the end of a chapter affirming the resurrection of Christ. His way of thinking, believing, doing and relating to everything...

" And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins" (1

Some of the Corinthians were professing unbelief in the prospect of a general resurrection. Paul runs the argument backwards. He says...

"But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that

Once in history, a person who convinced his contemporaries that he was as human--or more so--than they were, died a horrible, public...

"Now brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you" (1 Corinthians 15:1)

Despite it being the "good, glad, and merry tidings that causeth the hard to sing and the feet to dance," the gospel of Christ is not the...

"Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom o

When grandma came to visit, she would often raise her index finger and solemnly warn me that 'little children should be seen but not...

"Love never fails" (1 Corinthians 13:8)

Many a betrayed lover might well question that assertion. But the writer would not contest the myriad instances of love's demise within...

"If I give all my possessions to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not lov

Altruism is not necessarily honorable. Humans are known to behave in ostensibly noble ways for base reasons. This helps explain why...

"The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I don't need you.' And the head cannot say to the

Paul is using the human body as a metaphor for the church. The local church that realizes the ideal here envisaged, is a great church...

"Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy; do not fear what they fea

A secular, or an apostate society, does have its standards, but they are seldom true or good. Without God the supreme moral arbiter,...

" . . . Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition" (Matthew 15:6).

The propensity to reverence one's own beliefs and customs more than the values of God is a universal human propensity. We are all...

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"Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously wi

“But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of the cov

" . . .So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ

"Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many gr

"Jesus replied, 'The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified'"

"In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in

" . . . He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ f

"Simon Peter asked him, 'Lord, where are you going?' Jesus replied, 'Where I am goi

"Though you have not seen him you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe

"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you

"It was revealed to them that were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the thing

"If you really knew me, you would know my father as well" (John 14:7).

"Like newborn babies crave pure spiritual milk so that you may grow up in your salvation, now t

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