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 27 Paul returns to the theme of comfort, and he adds sorrow or grief, depending on your translation. The word means pain, distress; grief, sorrow; cause of grief, trouble, affliction.[1] Another lexicon says the word means “an idiom, literally ‘to be swallowed up by grief’) to be so overcome with grief as to despair—‘to…
July 26 Paul challenges the church at Corinth in a way that sounds a bit strange. The church is the body of Christ; it is composed of everyone who has repented of their sin and turned to God by faith in Jesus. And yet, he tells this church to not receive the grace of God…
July 25 I have already said that this realm is temporary. Paul reminds his readers that we will, at some point, set aside our earthly tent (our physical body) and put on a new body. He says that all believers are new creations, and old things – the Old Covenant and God’s dwelling place –…
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…
