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Passage Read: 1 Corinthians 12-13 Meditation Verse: 13:11 Paul was an apostle, which he lists as the first among spiritual gifts. He didn't lay aside that gift as he grew in his understanding and practice of love, but neither did he promote his exercise of…

Passage Read: 1 Corinthians 10-11 Meditation Verses: 11:29-31 Communion is not a simple eating and drinking a little bread and juice in remembrance of the Lord, it is powerful under the guidance of the Spirit. Those who eat and drink without examining themselves, without recognizing…

Passage Read: 1 Corinthians 8-9 Meditation Verses: 9:24-27 Paul is in effect challenging every believer to compete with each other, so as to be the one victor. The implication is that we each should be working at greater self-control than the next believer, greater godliness…

Passage Read: 1 Corinthians 6-7 Meditation Verse: 7:19 Circumcision and other rituals that we use to include people as Christians don't matter. What matters is keeping God's commands, walking in His ways. We are not a Christian because we performed some ritual, we are a…

Passage Read: 1 Corinthians 4-5 Meditation Verses: 5:11-13 There's all this talk of Christians shooting their wounded whenever we call out a sinner, especially one who's been concealing their sin for a while. Yet were actually supposed to call out unrepentant sinners. We're supposed to…