Category Archives: 1Corinthians

An Entrusted Stewardship

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Pete

Perspective. It makes all the difference, doesn’t it? It’s the difference between the cup being half-full or half-empty. The difference between being discouraged by how far we have to go and being jazzed by how far we’ve come. And, as … Continue reading →

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That We Might Understand

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Pete

Saturday we gathered together with confidence. As we remembered our so evident loss, yet we equally celebrated her so certain gain. Though we acknowledged the reality of the difficulty here and now, we affirmed the surety of reunion there and … Continue reading →

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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Pete

I’m reading 1Corinthians 12 and realize it’s an object lesson. Paul is taking something that everyone is familiar with and trying to make a point about something they still have much to learn about. At issue is their ignorance around … Continue reading →

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For the Common Good

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Pete

Yesterday morning, when I was reading in the latter part of 1Corinthians 11, the words that jumped off the page were “when you come together.” Not because I had some profound insight concerning them but because they are repeated again … Continue reading →

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Flee!

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Pete

Gideon is a kind of an enigma for me. Seems to have, for the most part, run the race well but then gets tripped up at the finish line. He has an encounter of the divine kind with the angel … Continue reading →

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Judges, Don’t You Know?

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Pete

Judges. That’s not the book I’m reading this morning, it’s the thought that is rolling through my mind. The followers of Jesus are going to be judges. It’s not Paul’s main point in the first part of 1Corinthians chapter 6. … Continue reading →

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The Power of God

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Pete

Tonight, Lord willing, the saints plan on gathering at, as my friend Garry likes to calls it, L-T-double-C. The plan is to sing a bit, read Scripture, respond with Scripture, and then eat and drink symbols of Someone’s death. In … Continue reading →

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On Being Addicted ( A 2009 Rerun)

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Pete

Looking back on my journal, it’s apparent that I’ve been repeatedly drawn to a certain family mentioned in the closing thoughts of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. Here’s the passage that consistently jumps off the page . . . … Continue reading →

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When We Come Together

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Pete

Five times. Five times in eighteen verses. Three-hundred-ninety-eight words in this passage and twenty of those words are the same four word phrase repeated five times. While the subject of the passage is appropriate conduct at the Lord’s table, the … Continue reading →

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Just As He Promised

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Pete

The land had been allotted. The cities of refuge established. The Levites given towns throughout Israel where they could live. Mission accomplished. Operation “Possess the Land” was, for the most part, in the books. Time for celebration? To be sure. … Continue reading →

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