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1 Corinthians 7 - 2019-11-15READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 7 – COMMENTARY BIBLE TEXT: 1 Corinthians 7:10-16 (ESV) 10 To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should...November 15, 2019 -
1 Corinthians 7 - 2019-11-14READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 7 – COMMENTARY Introduction: “With the beginning of chapter 7, Paul makes a major structural transition in the letter, as he turns to address issues that have been raised explicitly by the Corinthians in a letter to...November 14, 2019
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1 Corinthians 6 - 2019-11-13READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 6 – COMMENTARY BIBLE TEXT: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 (ESV) 12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. 13...November 13, 2019
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1 Corinthians 6 - 2019-11-12READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 6 – COMMENTARY vv.1-6 “More important than any private property is the unity of the church. Paul calls again for a conversion of the imagination. The Corinthians are to stop seeing themselves as participants in...November 12, 2019
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1 Corinthians 5 - 2019-11-11READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 5 – COMMENTARY BIBLE TEXT: 1 Corinthians 5:9-13 (ESV) 9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy...November 11, 2019
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1 Corinthians 5 - 2019-11-08READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 5 – COMMENTARY BIBLE TEXT: 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 (ESV) 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a...November 8, 2019
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1 Corinthians 5 - 2019-11-07READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 5 – COMMENTARY vv.1-2 “‘Sexual immorality’ translates the Greek porneia, the most general of all terms for sexual sin. In this context, however, it is clear that the sin is a matter of incest. If the...November 7, 2019
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1 Corinthians 4 - 2019-11-06READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 4 – COMMENTARY BIBLE TEXT: 1 Corinthians 4:14-21 (ESV) 14 I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15 For though you have countless guides in Christ, you...November 6, 2019
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1 Corinthians 4 - 2019-11-05READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 4 – COMMENTARY BIBLE TEXT: 1 Corinthians 4:8-13 (ESV) 8 Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share...November 5, 2019
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1 Corinthians 4 - 2019-11-04READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 4 – COMMENTARY Introduction: “With this chapter Paul concludes his appeal for unity among the Corinthian factions. He brings the discussion full circle: having begun with the wrong way to treat the apostles (overly exalting them), he...November 4, 2019
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1 Corinthians 3 - 2019-11-01READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 3 – COMMENTARY Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 3:18-23 (ESV) 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 19...November 1, 2019
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1 Corinthians 3 - 2019-10-31READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 3 – COMMENTARY Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 3:10-17 (ESV) 10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one...October 31, 2019
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1 Corinthians 3 - 2019-10-30READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 3 – COMMENTARY vv.1-4 “The contrast between ‘spiritual’ and ‘worldly’ in 3:1-4 thus differs from the contrasts in 2:6-16. ‘Worldly’ in verse 1 is a slightly different Greek word than in verse 3, but both are...October 30, 2019
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1 Corinthians 2 - 2019-10-29READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 2 – COMMENTARY Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 2:10-16 (ESV) 10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except...October 29, 2019
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1 Corinthians 2 - 2019-10-28READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 2 – COMMENTARY Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 2:6-9 (ESV) 6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to...October 28, 2019
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1 Corinthians 2 - 2019-10-25READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings 1 CORINTHIANS 2 – COMMENTARY vv.1-5 “These verses contain Paul’s narrative of community formation. Note what he chooses to place at the center of the picture: ‘Christ Jesus and him crucified!’ Neither his comportment nor his rhetoric...October 25, 2019
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1 Corinthians 1 - 2019-10-24READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (ESV) (1 Corinthians 1 Commentary) 26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God...October 24, 2019
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1 Corinthians 1 - 2019-10-23READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 (ESV) (1 Corinthians 1 Commentary) 18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For...October 23, 2019
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1 Corinthians 1 - 2019-10-22READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 (ESV) (1 Corinthians 1 Commentary) 10 I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but...October 22, 2019
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1 Corinthians 1 - 2019-10-21READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 1:4-9 (ESV) (1 Corinthians 1 Commentary) 4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in every way...October 21, 2019
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1 Corinthians 1 - 2019-10-18READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: INTRODUCTION COMMENTARY TO 1 CORINTHIANS “Ancient Corinth had become a prominent city-state in the southern Greek province known as Achaia several centuries before the time of Christ. Already in this era, it had eclipsed Athens in prominence...October 18, 2019
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Acts 28 - 2019-10-17READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 28:11-31 (ESV) 11 After three months we set sail in a ship that had wintered in the island, a ship of Alexandria, with the twin gods as a figurehead. 12 Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there for three days. 13 And from there...October 17, 2019
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Acts 28 - 2019-10-16READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 28 COMMENTARY vv.1-2: “Malta (Melite), on which the ship was wrecked, is an island about 18 miles long and 8 miles wide. It lies 58 miles south of Sicily and 180 miles north and east of the...October 16, 2019
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Acts 27 - 2019-10-15READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 27 COMMENTARY Background of passage: “The last two chapters of Acts record the fulfillment of Paul’s great ambition to go to Rome (cf. Rom. 1:10-13, 15:22-32). Luke records the event with the crisp, ‘And so we came...October 15, 2019
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Acts 26 - 2019-10-14READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 26:1-32 (ESV) 1 So Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense: 2 “I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am going...October 14, 2019
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Acts 26 - 2019-10-11READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Acts 25:1-26:32 (ESV) 1 Now three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. 2 And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews laid out their case against Paul, and they urged...October 11, 2019
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Acts 26 - 2019-10-10READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 26 COMMENTARY “It was a dramatic moment when the holy and humble apostle of Jesus Christ stood before this representative of the worldly, ambitious, morally corrupt family of...October 10, 2019
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Acts 24 - 2019-10-09READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 24 COMMENTARY Background ”The future of the gospel was at stake, as powerful forces ranged themselves for and against it. On the one hand, the Jewish persecutors were prejudiced...October 9, 2019
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Acts 23 - 2019-10-08READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 23 COMMENTARYvv.1-2: “The implication is that he had nothing on his own mind to condemn him, that he had been faithful in his conduct toward God in every...October 8, 2019
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Acts 22 - 2019-10-07READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings CHAPTER 22 COMMENTARYv.2: “Why did the Aramaic language quiet the howling mob? Aramaic was their common language. Hearing Paul speak it caught them by surprise. The unruly crowd immediately...October 7, 2019
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Devotional through 1 Corinthians
