August 17

  Order, Glory, and God’s Design The modern world we inhabit is a world that celebrates anarchy, a world that rebels against any semblance of order. It is a world that worships confusion. God’s Word paints a different picture. Scripture depicts a well-ordered...

August 16

  Why Half-Hearted Faith is Really Idolatry 1 Corinthians 10:14-33 Idolatry seems like a thing of the past. It must have been a problem for ancient people, those who bowed down to carved images in the shadows of some dimly lit temple. The Bible would agree....

August 15

  Most people start the race. Few finish well. The world’s fixation on self-promotion and personal comfort receives a sudden shock from Paul’s words which state “Though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win...

August 14

  Yesterday Recap: We learned that Christian liberty is not about exercising all our freedoms, but about loving others enough to set them aside when needed. Today’s Focus: Paul defends his authority as an apostle yet refuses to use his rights, choosing instead to...

August 13

  Why “I Have the Right” Isn’t Always Right In our culture of hyper-individualism and inalienable rights, 1 Corinthians 8 is a hard truth for modern western Christians. Sometimes, love means giving up our rights. In the Corinthian church, some believers had been...

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