1 CORINTHIANS 3:17 – If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. THEME OF THE DAY. THE SERIOUSNESS OF HOLINESS. Allow me an abrupt introduction to today’s nugget. It comes in the form of two serious commands of God and then a series of three questions. First, the commands . .…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
1 Corinthians
1 CORINTHIANS 7:35 – And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction. THEME OF THE DAY. UNPLUGGED. Before we move on in today’s nugget, please go back and read the scripture and ponder the last five words particularly –…
1 CORINTHIANS 9:24-27 – Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the…
1 Corinthians 1:30-31 – And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” THEME OF THE DAY. CHRIST: SUFFICIENT FOR ALL OUR NEEDS. Are you a confused Christian going through a hard time needing direction…
2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore, If anyone be in Christ, they are a new creature; old things have passed away, all things have become new. THEME OF THE DAY: FAILURE DOES NOT DEFINE US. One of my favorite Puritan pastors is Thomas Goodwin. He was so full of Christ and his writings reveal such. He was a pastor/theologian which every pastor should…
1 Corinthians 13:5 – Love does not seek its own. THEME OF THE DAY: ARE YOU A CHURCH GETTER OR GIVER? There is a tombstone in the courtyard of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. It reads, “Sacred to the memory of General Charles George Gordon, who at all times and everywhere gave his strength to the weak, his substance to the poor,…