Daily Grace
Christians and Legal Conflict
“The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?” (1 Corinthians 6:7). Christians have a set of values different than those of the world. Paul wrote to a church in...
Sincerity and Truth
“ Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Corinthians 5:8). Jesus is pictured in the New Testament as God’s ultimate sacrifice who purchased our freedom....
Christ is our Passover Lamb
“Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed” (1 Corinthians 5:7). Paul, having just written about sin, refers back to the graphic picture of deliverance in the Old...
We are Family
“Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel” (1 Corinthians 4:15). Paul’s concern for the believers who were part of the churches he founded was not just professional. It...
We Have No Reason to Boast
"For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?” (1 Corinthians 4:7). Pride is never pretty and it wasn’t attractive in the Corinthian believers. In this...
Our Secure Foundation
“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 3:11) A building is no more secure than its foundation. It may be beautiful on the outside with exquisite columns and brick work but if the foundation isn’t...
God Makes Things Grow
"I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow” (1 Corinthians 3:6-7). Paul was writing to believers who were divided in their loyalties....
God Give’s Freely
"And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us” (1 Corinthians 2:12). None of us can imagine the extent of the good things God has planned for us. It takes the Holy Spirit living in us for us to...
Our Faith Rests on God’s Power
“My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power” (1 Corinthians 2:4-5). Paul was a brilliant teacher and an inspiring writer but...