by MrsJAllen | Nov 24, 2022 | 1corinthians
One danger we face when we think about the future—Jesus’s return and our resurrection—is that we can get caught up in the details. We can fret about the specifics of when it will happen or how it will happen or what kind of bodies we’ll have. Paul cautions us against...
by MrsJAllen | Nov 23, 2022 | 1corinthians
We’ve talked a lot about the others-centered life in this study of 1 Corinthians. Living this way is a risk because we put our own security, well-being, and control of our lives aside so that we can meet the needs of other Christians. We give ourselves away because we...
by MrsJAllen | Nov 22, 2022 | 1corinthians
Sometimes it’s good to get back to the basics. In the final chapters of 1 Corinthians, Paul draws the church back to its roots. He reminds them of what he first taught them when he visited their city years before. It all comes back to the gospel. Read 1 Corinthians...
by MrsJAllen | Nov 21, 2022 | 1corinthians
Paul has been encouraging the church in Corinth to live an others-centered life. This way of living exhibits the sacrificial love of Jesus in all areas of life from the local church to the family to the workplace. We live selflessly only through the power of the Holy...
by MrsJAllen | Nov 18, 2022 | 1corinthians
You might have noticed that we covered chapters 12 and 14, but we skipped over chapter 13. We did that on purpose. That’s because we often take chapter 13 out of the context of its surrounding chapters. We read it at weddings or during a marriage series, which can...
by MrsJAllen | Nov 17, 2022 | 1corinthians
Now that we know we have gifts from the Spirit, we need to know the proper way to use them. We don’t want anything to get out of hand. We want to be selfless with our gifts. But what does that look like? 1 Corinthians 14 is another one of those sticky passages we...
