by Justin Marple | Nov 11, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, First Corinthians, SERMONS
1 Cor 7:17-24 is a strange section of application for this essay on men and women in the family because it is not so much about men and women in the family as it is about being Jews, Gentiles, slaves, and free. This is not just Paul getting off on a tangent, but is...
by Justin Marple | Nov 4, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, First Corinthians, SERMONS
1 Cor 7:6-16 continues to offer holy surprises. The previous section had given us the holy surprise that the marriage bed of believers is holy. This is a surprise because the original audience thought that those who abstained were more holy and more single-minded in...
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 30, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, SERMONS
3 John is a short epistle written by a grandfather in the faith that encourages Gaius because he has welcomed truth workers, rebukes Diotrephes because he will not receive them, and commends Demetrius as a truth worker. The letter is an excellent encouragement to us...
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