Today’s Bible Translation Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 9-10 NIV Support Please remember that this is a listener supported show. Your support of any amount is needed and very much appreciated. Find out how by clicking here. Thoughts Is it ok with you if I am really, really honest with you today? Is…
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Today’s Bible Translation Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 6 NIRV, Ch. 7-8 NIV Support Please remember that this is a listener supported show. Your support of any amount is needed and very much appreciated. Find out how by clicking here. Thoughts Sometimes you just have to step in it and let the chips…
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Today’s Bible Translation Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 4-5 NIRV Support Please remember that this is a listener supported show. Your support of any amount is needed and very much appreciated. Find out how by clicking here. Thoughts Today I’m going to focus on the seventh verse of chapter 5, which just happens…
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Today’s Bible Translation Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 1-2 GWT, Ch. 3 NIRV Support Please remember that this is a listener supported show. Your support of any amount is needed and very much appreciated. Find out how by clicking here. Thoughts Beloved, I have some news for you that you might find shocking….
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Paul’s closing comments to the Corinthian church are a bit of a mixed bag. In responding to those who seem to be swayed by the false teachers in their midst who have questioned Paul’s authority, he defends his apostleship in relating how God gave him a vision some fourteen years earlier, in which Paul was…
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What’s happening here is Paul is addressing the matter of a false preacher in their midst who had been saying that Paul was not who or what he said he was. And this false preacher was trying to bring false teaching into the church. Remember, the church was still very young. This was only a…
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Our first chapter today, Chapter 7, began with the word “Therefore”. In studying the Bible, it’s a good practice to, whenever you see that word, ask yourself, “What’s the therefore there for?” Let’s look again at the first sentence of the chapter. Paul writes, “Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends…” What promises? We…
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Today I’m going to focus on the seventh verse, which just happens to consist of only seven words: We live by believing, not by seeing. You know, there comes a time in each person’s life where they just have to make a decision. Given the facts that can be known, and accepting that there are…
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In the beginning of chapter three, Paul talked about letters of reference. And then he said, “You yourselves are our letter.” What he was saying was that they were the evidence of his work. Nothing more was needed to validate what he was doing. What kind of monument do we build with the work we…
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Do you remember the first issue that Paul talked to the Corinthians about in the last letter? There was a man in the church who was in the midst of sexual sin. In fact, it was incest. He told them that they must discipline the person and not let the sin continue or condone it….
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