By any estimation 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 frames the Bible’s greatest text on comfort. What can we learn from Paul's words?...
Lisa Loraine Baker
In the Bible, The Bema Seat is the title given the Judgment Seat of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:10, Romans 14:10). The judgment of each Christian is not a determination of who will enter heaven, because t...
Emma Danzey
We as Christ followers have the ability to demolish strongholds. The Greek word for stronghold is ochuróma. It implies a place of refuge and safety, when in actuality, it is a prison. Sometimes w...
Pamela Palmer
According to the Bible, every good and perfect gift comes from above and is given by the Father (see James 1:17). God loves His children and has good things for those who follow Him....
Lisa Loraine Baker
Glossolalia is a 19th-century term extrapolated from the Greek word, glossa, which is the word Peter used in this passage. Glossa means “tongue” (in this case it means language). ...
Connor Salter
Titus was one of at least two younger men that Paul discipled and described as his “son in the faith that we share” (Titus 1:4). ...
Lisa Loraine Baker
Jesus is the only way a person will enter heaven. In these days of conformity and inclusivity, however, people rail against anything exclusive. Yes, Jesus is exclusively the only way to heaven, b...
In our review of these four New Testament passages, we find at least ten principles for Christian giving....
Ruth Clemence
To God, believers are a “pleasing aroma of Christ.” We bring the good news of Jesus, and we are His ambassadors (2 Corinthians 5:20). In the world, there are those who are being saved and those who ar...
Jean Wilund
Soteriology isn’t uniquely Christian, but it is biblical. Paul demonstrates the use of soteriology in his letter to the Corinthian church....
Frank Santora
Paul was not boasting, rather he was trying to protect new Christians who were being led astray from the faith by some false apostles. In doing so he gives us some tremendous insight into the Christia...
Eric Costanzo
There has been much debate regarding the “created order” and “the Fall” in Genesis 1-3, and how they relate to women preaching, teaching, and leading in the church according t...
Heather Adams
There are many different kinds of love. But the one the Apostle Paul seems to be most focused on, especially in this chapter of 1 Corinthians, is agape love. But this selfless affection is something t...
Cathy Baker
What helps us to have the mind of Christ, and what do we gain when we search for it?...
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We can see that marriage is an intimate and complementing union between a man and a woman in which the two become one physically, in the whole of life. ...
Lisa Loraine Baker
If we love someone with a godly love, then by definition of the word, we decide to compassionately and responsibly pursue the well-being of another. God’s Word tells us in Philippians 2:3 to, “Do...
Lisa Loraine Baker
Concupiscence is one of those words which derives its meaning from the context—specifically the object toward which it is directed. At its core, concupiscence is desire or coveting (epithymia)....
Hope Bolinger
“Love is patient, love is kind.” Why patient? Why kind? Why didn’t any of the other later attributes such as not envying, not boasting, etc. come before these two?...