Church should be a place where people gather and get along with each other that have no other reason for doing so.

All repentant sinners are welcome at the Lord’s Table, no matter how far away from God they may have recently felt. Today, Paul’s warnings against profaning the Lord’s Supper and…

“There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.” -Galatians 3:28 (NLT)

External rituals or even experiences of the supernatural prove no guarantee either of salvation or of Christian maturity. Participation in spectacular experiences does not relieve the people of God from…

Last week, Paul addressed the tension created between the Corinthian believers’ responsibility to other believers, and their freedom as believers. This week he applies the distilled principles to his life.

“You must abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood or the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. If you do this, you will do well.…

The genius of Paul’s reply to the Corinthians is that he avoids the extremes of asceticism and hedonism and refuses to prize too highly either single or married life.

Christians have been joined to Christ’s body: they must honor God in the way they use their own bodies. “This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and…

Chapters 5-7 comprise the second essay found in Paul’s letter to the church in Corinth. This essay addresses sexual integrity. The Corinthians were deluding themselves, not realizing that rejecting God’s…

Corinth straddled a narrow isthmus between two waterways, with ports on each side bustling with seafarers.  Aphrodite, the sexual goddess, was the city’s patron deity. Inevitably, the promiscuity of the…