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Daily Readings: James 5 and Psalm 42 9 Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door! You would think that this would be a very simple command to obey, wouldn’t you? Everyone inside the Church of Jesus Christ gets on really well with one
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 12 and Psalm 119:97-112 1 Corinthians is filled with Paul’s responses to issues confronting the Church in Corinth. In chapter 12 he turns to the question of spiritual gifts. Their pagan past had exposed them to many people with what looked a lot like the spiritual gifts they now saw in
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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 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 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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