1 Corinthians 4:7, “What do you have that you did not receive?” I was reading some of Martin Luther’s theology this weekend and this passage was mentioned as foundational to his understanding of the human condition. Our existence itself, the very fact that we are, is GIFTED to us. This is not a new

  1 Corinthians 15:21, “For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.” When Paul speaks of the resurrection—as we will see in verses 35-42, and even more clearly in Romans 8:18-25 —he has more in mind than just the resurrection of believer’s bodies. Ultimately the

  1 Corinthians 13:2, “And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.” Jesus died and rose again so that we might be folded into the life of God, which is a life

    1 Corinthians 11:26, “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.” Two things to consider here. First, Jesus gave His Church the elements of bread and wine as images, symbols, signs, proxies of His Body and His Blood. The body and

    1 Corinthians 6:19, “You are not your own.” The simplicity and counter-intuitive nature of this sentence is amazing…. You Though this word is plural, Paul seems clearly to be addressing each individual Corinthian. When he says, “You,” he means, “each one of you.” And so, the word means, everything that is themselves, everything

  1 Corinthians 2:10, “These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him?” These Things? First, what are the “these things” that God has revealed through

  1 Corinthians 1:21, “For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.” Now, this is a paradigmatic verse. Notice that the world did not know God through wisdom, therefore it pleased God to

    1 Corinthians 1:21, “For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.”   This is a paradigmatic verse. Notice that the world did not know God through wisdom, therefore it pleased God

  1 Corinthians 2:2, “…I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.”   And in knowing Christ Crucified (and risen) we know every good, true and beautiful thing. To know the identity of God in the crucified and risen Son and make Him known; to enjoy Him and help others