Sin: Looks like fun at first but the consequences aren’t so pleasant. Paul has been struggling with this group in Corinth. He wants to see them but he refrains from going instead. He postpones his visit to them out of love and mercy. We know from reading Acts that Paul has been moving about on […]
No matter what lies before me, He is my comforter. This is the message Paul shares with the Corinthian church in our reading today. Neither Paul nor his audience has had an easy time of it but there is still a promise in the middle of “affliction.” The church Paul is writing to was in […]
Paul is writing to the church at Corinth again. This is not a happy letter but another one that had to be sent. He starts out with his customary greeting but even it has a slight bite to it. Paul sent Timothy with his last letter to this body of believers instead of coming himself. […]
We have come to the end of another of Paul’s letters. He is saying his farewell to his Corinthian family, for a while anyway. This has not been an easy letter to write or receive. Paul addressed several critical issues, but he did it all in love. Paul starts his closing greeting by mentioning familiar […]
This is Paul’s final instructions to the Corinthian church, for now. He also gives special instructions for honoring some of the founding fathers of this group. “Let all that you do be done in love” (verse 14) encompasses everything that Paul spoke of in this letter. It also stands sentinel to the command he wrote […]
