“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant” 1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV Reflection: what is the difference between describing what something is, versus what it is not? We looked yesterday at some of the characteristics of Jesus, described by Paul in 1. Corinthians 13. This is such an […]
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” 1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV. Reflection: do you know Jesus? Does he know you? I was reading an article on LinkedIn the other day that caught my attention. It was from a
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“If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.” 1 Corinthians 12:26-27 ESV Reflection: how can you quickly tell if someone gets hurt? At some point in our lives, we all have experienced an injury or a
“For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.”Psalms 30:5 NKJV Reflection: what brings you joy? The Lord never ceases to amaze me. Right at the moment when you are down, when you see so much pain and sorrow
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“The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.” Job 33:4 NIV Reflection: how close are you following the Lord? Close enough to hear His breath? If you have ever been hiking together with someone, you know the importance of sticking together. And, you have probably noticed that if
“But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.” I Corinthians 12:11 NKJV. Reflection: what is the purpose of the gifts of the Spirit? You might have heard some preachers declare that “everyone who has received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior can and should
“the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant
“Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.” 1 Corinthians 11:28 ESV Reflection: when and how do you reflect on yourself? In most modern cars, a warning light comes on when another car approaches on either side, into the area where they are difficult to see.
“But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.” 1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV Reflection: what biblical topics would you consider to be the most controversial? Of the hundreds and hundreds, possibly thousands of sermons I
“For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”Colossians 1:13-14 NIV Reflection: what is an example of the “dominion of darkness” ? When you think of the word “rescue”, what comes to mind? Most
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