August 27, 2014
by Rob Gibson
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From The Message Bible:
2 Corinthians 3:1-6:Does it sound like we're patting ourselves on the back, insisting on our credentials, asserting our authority? Well, we're not. Neither do we need letters of endorsement, either to you or from you. You yourselves are all the endorsement we need. Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ h...
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August 25, 2014
by Bobby Pruitt
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2 Corinthians 1
(2 Cor 1:20) For all the promises of God find their "Yes" in Him!
Paul's statement in verse 20 is one that every believer should commit to memory. What an amazing promise! Everything the Father has committed to us find their fulfillment in Jesus and their confirmation in Him. We can trust what He is going to do in the future by His track record in t...
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August 22, 2014
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To mix it up, all I am going to do today is give you a brief list of observations on 1 Corinthians 15 and encourage you to make some observations of your own and then reflect on them.
1 Corinthians 15:
Paul calls people back to the gospel (v1)
Paul was preaching the gospel to people who were already saved
The gospel doesn't just justify us, it is God's primary tool i...
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August 20, 2014
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1 Corinthians 14
Ecclesiastes 3:1 says that there is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven.
Don't we know this! As we do life together as a church, I see times for mourning, times for rejoicing, times for listening, times for speaking, times to sit quietly and let a brother pour out his heart. All of these are appropriate an...
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August 19, 2014
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1 Corinthians 13
If you've ever been to a wedding, you're familiar with this chapter! While love is a central theme of the entire Bible, no chapter in all of scripture paints such a clear picture of what love is in action. As a result 1 Corinthians 13 has been labeled the "LOVE CHAPTER" of the Bible.
Action Without Love is Nothing
The chapter starts off with a series...
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August 18, 2014
by Bobby Pruitt
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1 Corinthians 12
There is something in each of us - something deep in our hearts - that leads us to rank ourselves in comparison with others. You would think we would have learned by now that this rarely plays out well. I know that for me personally, I am either (1)leftdespondent - feeling inferior or (2)I attempt to "one-up" those in my "category," or (3) I eitheridolize...
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August 15, 2014
by Scott Purcell
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1 Corinthians 11
Today's reading is from 1 Corinthians 11 and it has two major sections -- one dealing with the expectation that women would wear head coverings when praying or prophesying in the church, and the other dealing with the abuse of the Lord's Supper.
Women, Headcoverings, Authority, and Prayer
The passage from verse 1 to 16 is among the most difficult in...
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August 14, 2014
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I Corinthians 10
When I first opened my Bible to this chapter, the verse that I had previously underlined in red (so it must have been important) jumped out at me:
V13: "No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will make the way of escape, that you will be ab...
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August 13, 2014
by Rob Gibson
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1 Corinthians 9
I wasn't much of an athlete at school. Most of my school years I was overweight, and had asthma and allergies. Usually last picked, usually last in the pack! That didn't mean that I wasn't competitive though. I liked (and still like) to win. When we enter a competition we usually want to do our best. Yet in some area's of our lives we don't think conscio...
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August 11, 2014
by Bobby Pruitt
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1 Corinthians 7
In 1 Corinthians 7, Paul gets very practical in what is already a very practical letter. He addresses marriage, singleness, divorce, self-control, lust, sex in and out of marriage and contentment.
(7:1-5) Paul tells married people that it's okay to have sex. It sounds strange that he would have to say that, but the Corinthians were people (like us) or e...
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