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Tag Archives: 1 corinthians
What’s With Paul and Women?
Traditionally, two short passages in the New Testament have been used by the church to silence and deactivate half the assembly. Those would be 1 Timothy 2:11-12 and 1 Corinthians 14:34-36. Jon Zens (with a goodly number of others) believes … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 corinthians, 1 Timothy, Ephesians, jon zens, paul, Women, women in the church, women's rights
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1 Corinthians 16:1-24
In 1 Corinthians 16, the last chapter of this second longest of Paul’s surviving letters, Paul ties up some ends, deals with a few business issues to do with a charitable collection he was taking up for the saints in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 corinthians, charity, christ, christian, christianity, early church, jesus, paul, religion
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1 Corinthians 15:12-19
Christianity was only one among many new and growing religions in the eastern world. Just like today, people of Greek society hungered for spiritual things and, just like today, they couldn’t seem to find just that right fit. That one … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 corinthians, belief, christian, christianity, faith, gnosticism, god, holy spirit, jesus, paul, religion, resurrection
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1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Paul goes back to the basics in 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 to establish a foundation for what he will say next. Sometimes we need to do this. Sometimes we can find ourselves building castles in the air and not even realizing … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 corinthians, apostle, belief, christ, christian, church, faith, god, holy spirit, jesus, religion, vision
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1 Corinthians 14
Paul has been talking about how every member of the body is different and necessary. I’ve always had a bit of a challenge in seeing how a ministry of vacuuming the church building amounted to manifesting a gift of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 corinthians, apostle, christianity, early church, faith, god, holy spirit, jesus, organic church, paul, religion, spiritual gifts
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1 Corinthians 13: The Love Chapter
For as long as I can remember, I’ve referred to 1 Corinthians 13 as the “Love Chapter.” The Greek has several words which could be translated “love,” and none of them is able to express the fullness of the meaning … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 corinthians, agape, belief, christianity, faith, god, holy spirit, jesus, love chapter, religion, spiritual gifts, spirituality
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1 Corinthians 12:12-31
If you see a little of the influence of Barna and Viola’s Pagan Christianity here, you’re not imaging things. I find myself agreeing with them more the more I read, and the part of 1 Corinthians (chapters 11-14) I’m presently … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 corinthians, apostle, apostle paul, apostles, apostolic, belief, bible, Bible Study, charisma, charismata, charismatic, charisms, christian, christianity, faith, god, holy spirit, jesus, pentecost, pentecostal, prophecy, prophet, religion, scripture, speaking in tongues, spiritual, spiritual gifts, spirituality, tongues
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1 Corinthians 12:1-11
Concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I would not have you to be ignorant . . . but how many of us are ignorant on that very subject? Oh, we can run through the list and explain the current conception of exactly … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 corinthians, calling, christian, christianity, church, ekklesia, epistle, faith, gifts of the spirit, god, healing, hearing from god, holy spirit, jesus, ministry, miracles, paul, religion, spirit, spiritualism, spirituality, tongues
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1 Corinthians 11:2-16
On the surface, Paul’s insistence that the women of Corinth wear head covering to believers’ meetings doesn’t seem to have a lot to do with us today. Very few churches require this sort of thing, and in those that do, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 corinthians, authority, christianity, clothing, corinth, culture, dress, faith, god, head covering, holy spirit, Islam, jesus, love, modesty, pagan, paganism, paul, relevance, religion, spiritual, spirituality, submission, taboo, veil, virtue
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1 Corinthians 10:23 – 11:1
Paul finishes his exhortation on how Christians are to deal with their society on the matter of idol worship with some specific instructions. Though we no longer bow down before images of wood and stone in most of our societies, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 corinthians, apostle paul, Bible Study, biblical, christian, christianity, church, corinth, faith, god, holy spirit, idolatry, jesus, legalism, love, paul, religion, saint paul, scriptural, scripture, spiritual, spiritualism
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