Devotional
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 8 and Psalm 119:17-32 In 1 Corinthians 8 Paul dealt with a controversial issue for Christians living in a majority pagan population who worshiped at the temples of the many Greek gods. To provide context: A portion of the meat of every animal sacrificed at a pagan temple belonged to the
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 7 and Psalm 119:1-16 In 1 Corinthians 7, Paul answered questions the Corinthian Christians had written to him about marriage, singleness, divorce, and sex. There appear to have been those among them who strongly believed that it was more spiritual to be celibate, even when one was married! But, writing under
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 6 and Psalm 118 1 Corinthians 6 is filled with Holy Spirit-inspired instruction and correction from Paul. Although he addressed a range of areas where the Corinthian Christians were falling into sinful tendencies, the heart of his instruction was to remind them that their salvation had begun with repentance from sin.
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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 4 and Psalm 116 In 1 Corinthians 4, Paul wrote to correct the pride among the Corinthians Christians, and addressed sinful attitudes like being “puffed up” and “boasting”. These Corinthians had actually come to look down on Paul and the other apostles, whom they viewed as foolish, weak and dishonoured. By
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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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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 2 and Psalm 114 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 1 and Psalm 113 Having completed the letter to the Romans, we now turn to 1 Corinthians. This letter was written by the apostle Paul to the Christians in Corinth, most likely towards the end of his 3-year ministry in Ephesus (see Acts 19). He wrote it mainly to address specific
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Daily Readings: Romans 16 and Psalm 112 Paul had not yet visited Rome when he wrote this letter, and yet he was able to greet quite a number of Roman Christians and their households by name. That’s because many of the people he had led to Christ during his missionary journeys had ended up in
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Daily Readings: Romans 15 and Psalm 111 “(Christ Jesus) gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.” (v.16) What a wonderful way for the apostle Paul to view his ministry. He understood that the Lord had
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