by Justin Marple | Oct 21, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, First Corinthians, SERMONS
1 Cor 7:1-5 is responding to something that the Corinthians had asked Paul, yet Paul only wrote what he thought important to be read aloud in all the churches. It is an important text for us to read aloud in worship today too. It is the first of seven sections where...
by Justin Marple | Oct 14, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, First Corinthians, SERMONS
1 Cor 6:9-20 is the theological foundation for the second essay in First Corinthians. Paul expresses, several times, an unwillingness to believe that they do not know the basic things of Christianity that shape our theology of sexuality. And Paul uses these basic...
by Justin Marple | Oct 7, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, First Corinthians, SERMONS
1 Cor 4:17-6:8 is a very appropriate text for Worldwide Communion Sunday. The tradition that Paul teaches us in 1 Cor 11 is just as clear and well known as the tradition of the church with regard to men and women in the family. And they are interrelated as the text...
by Justin Marple | Sep 23, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, First Corinthians, SERMONS
1 Cor 3:18-4:16 shows us that Paul faced a somewhat similar situation to The Hunger Games but it also shows us how differently he approached that situation. Paul’s essay ends, answering the opening component where Paul references the tradition about Jesus that...
by Justin Marple | Sep 16, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, First Corinthians, SERMONS
1 Cor 3:5-17 uses an agricultural analogy and then seamlessly shifts to an architechural analogy. The parable of the field is that you are a field that belongs to God and Paul and Apollos are servants who work that field. The parable of the building is that you are...
by Justin Marple | Sep 9, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, First Corinthians, SERMONS
1 Cor 2:3-3:4 includes the second half of the theological foundation Paul has written to address the problem of following personalities, forming parties, and dividing into cliques. But 1 Cor 3:1-4 is the beginning of Paul’s application of this theological...
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