“Why are you wearing red shoes?” “Madame Wu told me that on the day I will meet my future wife, I’ll be wearing shoes.” “And have you been wearing red shoes ever since?” Why yes, certainly.” “Then of course it’s going to come true!” “You really think so? I can’t wait to meet her!” […]
Month: March 2016
Letters to the Corinthians: Saying Goodbye
It’s something of a special moment – finally reaching 1 Corinthians 16, the very last chapter. This happens to be the thirtieth post – of breaking down the letter by chapters and sections and reading the verses trying to figure out how much of it still applies exactly as written or how creative we’ve gotten […]
Letters to the Corinthians: Spiritual Bodies
Now that Paul has clarified some points about the resurrection, he continues by looking at a related issue in 1 Corinthians 15:35-58 … But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. When you […]
Letters to the Corinthians: Ressurection Power
Having reminded the Corinthians that the gospel is “Christ and him crucified”, he now moves onto the promise of Resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15:12-34 … But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is […]
Letters to the Corinthians: Remember the Gospel
Many times prayers will be centered around standing on the promises of Scripture – agreeing with Bible verses that talk about healing, earnestly praying by enlisting others to pray for the same thing, praying at all hours of the day, everywhere you go – believing it fully so that what you bind on earth is […]
Letters to the Corinthians: How to Have a Worship Service
In this section of Scripture, we have one of the more restrictive verses regarding women and what they can do during worship. It also poses something of a dilemma – you see, the phrase ‘brothers and sisters’ used at both the beginning and the end of this passage really does refer to both men and […]
Letters to the Corinthians: Speaking in Tongues is Awesome …
Everyone knows that speaking in tongues is awesome. I had a friend who went to a tongue-speaking church with her other friend as her other friend’s guest. During the tongue-speaking part of the service, one of the other believers came up to her and pushed her on the forehead. She didn’t know that she was […]
Letters to the Corinthians: Love WIll Find a Way
So we left off at the last verse of 1 Corinthians 12 – which takes us directly to the next chapter, 1 Cor. 13, arguably one of if not the most famous part of this letter: Now eagerly desire the greater gifts … And yet I will show you the most excellent way. I don’t […]
Letters to the Corinthians: Body and Soul
And now we’re at the rest of the chapter – 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 … Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or […]
Letters to the Corinthians: Spritual Things
Paul moves onto one of the other topics that the Corinthians had written to him about – spiritual things that they’ve seen some manifestation of but have no firm grasp on what they mean. Paul answers them in 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 and he continues from there … Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers […]
Be Persuaded 