The schedule for our daily Bible readings can be found here. The schedule is based on five days on, then two days off. It will take about five minutes each day to read that day’s scheduled reading. The devotionals will take an additional five minutes to read. Depending on how quickly you read … and…
July 24 The Christian life is filled with paradoxes. Paul presents some in 2 Corinthians 4:2-12. Not acting deceitfully or distorting the word of God, vs commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth. V. 4:2, CSBNot proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord. V. 5, CSBWe are afflicted…
July 23 Paul wrote both of his letters to the Corinthian church in the mid-50s, with his second letter written about one year after his first. He says that they know him very well, so he doesn’t need any recommendation letters. In fact, he says that they are his letters, written with the Holy Spirit…
July 20 Paul continues his thoughts on comfort as he moves into the second chapter of 2 Corinthians. He says that he doesn’t want his next visit to be a painful one, but rather one that brings comfort and reconciliation. Paul is probably referring to his harsh words in 1 Corinthians about dealing with Church…
July 19 In 2 Corinthians 1, we see several words repeated multiple times. Normally, the presence of repeated words and phrases gives us clues to what is most important in the passage. The word comfort appears ten times. In the Christian Standard Bible, Afflict appears four times. Suffer appears five times. Trouble appears once. Burden…
July 18 On April 27 and 30 we looked at the Old Covenant model of Tithing and compared it to the New Covenant model of giving. Paul discusses the New Covenant model in today’s Bible reading. He recommends the Corinthians give as he instructed the Galatians: each person is to set aside a sum of…
July 17 On May 3, I said that the Resurrection of Jesus is the “lynchpin” of the Christian faith; I referred to today’s Bible readings in 1 Corinthians 15. In this chapter, Paul drives home this point. Without Jesus’ Resurrection, there would be no Christian faith. If the Resurrection isn’t true, the wheels of the…
