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Daily Readings: Revelation 21-22 and Psalm 63 The final chapters of the Revelation are filled with the promise of the new creation. When Jesus returns as King and Lord of all, the entire universe is re-created, never to be corrupted by sin again. In this glorious new creation, God dwells with His people in a
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Daily Readings: 1 Timothy 3-4 and Psalm 4 14 Although I hope to come to you soon, I am writing to you with these instructions so that, 15 if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the
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Daily Readings: Ephesians 3 and Psalm 140 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s
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Daily Readings: 2 Corinthians 2 and Psalm 120 In 1 Corinthians 5:1 Paul described the disgusting, sexually immoral behaviour of an unnamed man in the Church in Corinth, who was sleeping with his father’s wife (presumably his ‘step-mother’). He called on the Church to discipline him by excluding him from their fellowship and their celebration
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 13 and Psalm 113-128 1 Corinthians 13 sits snugly between two chapters about spiritual gifts. And that is by no means random. Despite the fact that most of us associate 1 Corinthians 13 with weddings and romantic love, it is actually all about the “the most excellent way” to exercise one’s
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 11 and Psalm 119: 65-96 In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul’s concern was to teach the Christian community in Corinth to worship the Lord with the honour due to Him. That is the heart of everything that follows. When it comes to codes of dress for Christians attending worship, different people and
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 5 and Psalm 117 In 1 Corinthians 5, Paul warns the Church about its tolerance of a member who was known to be living in a flagrant, unrepentant, incestuous sexual relationship with his step-mother. In allowing this man to continue as normal in the fellowship of the Church despite his unrepentant
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 3 and Psalm 115 16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives among you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple. As we saw in chapter 1, the Corinthian Church was being
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