Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

1 Corinthians

The Two Workings of God’s Grace

1 CORINTHIANS 15:10: But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.” Today’s scripture might be considered one of those humanly irreconcilable dilemmas in our Bibles, not…

Heed the Examples

1 CORINTHIANS 10:1-13: For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that…

Of Daily Importance

1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-5 – Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died…

Who Are Your Closest Friends?

1 CORINTHIANS 15:33 – Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” PSALM 119:63 – I am a companion of all who fear you, of those who keep your precepts. THEME OF THE DAY. WHO ARE YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS? Before we get far into today’s nugget, let us do some work of observation and comparisons in today’s scriptures. First, what is…

Not What You Do, But How You Love

1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-8a – If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give…