Category Archives: 1 Corinthians
What Are We Doing?
Now about the gifts of the Spirit,brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 1 Corinthians 12:1 (NIV) I am sitting here tonight listening to four ordained men talk … Continue reading
Desire the Best
Not everyone can heal the sick. Not everyone can speak different kinds of languages. Not everyone can tell what these languages mean. I want you to desire the best gifts. So I will show you a much better way. … Continue reading
“God Knows Best”
“So I said to you: Don’t be terrified or afraid of them! The Lord your God who goes before youwill fight for you,just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt. And you saw in the wilderness how the … Continue reading
His Love Never Ends
If I speak human or angelic languages but do not have love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have … Continue reading
Strength for Today – Hope for Tomorrow
Praise the Lord! How joyful are those who fear the Lord and delight in obeying his commands. 2 Their children will be successful everywhere; an entire generation of godly people will be blessed. 3 They themselves will be wealthy, and … Continue reading
Rain Falls – Love Flows
[Jesus said,] “You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. … Continue reading
My Sight isn’t Perfect – Yet
[reprinted from March 7, 2011] Now all we can see of God is like a cloudy picture in a mirror. Later we will see him face to face. We don’t know everything, but then we will, just as God completely … Continue reading
Mothers
What if I could speak all languages of humans and of angels? If I did not love others, I would be nothing more than a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal … When we were children, we thought and reasoned … Continue reading
Kindness: All the Way to the End
[reprinted from February 1, 2010] – Henry Neufeld 6As for me, I am already being poured out on the altar, and the time of my death has come upon me. 7I have completed the great race. I have finished the … Continue reading
Communion: Do You Know What It Is?
Note from Jody 2/26/13: Many churches will celebrate with communion in their worship on this first Sunday of the month. Let’s prepare ourselves for an act of worship that Jesus Himself showed us and encouraged us to do. [Devotion reprinted … Continue reading