One of the things I love about the Reformation 500 years ago is something that is often overlooked, and it is the unique and different view of the human person that was such an important part of the effort to reform the church. Essentially the Reformers sought to return to the Scriptural view of the human person, namely, that we are creatures made in the image and likeness of God, and we have chosen to be tarnished by sin, and yet we have been restored to redemption through J

In our daily lives we need to find a quiet place we can easily go to every day in order to move into a deeper life with the Lord.  This is a place we can find solitude immediately.  This is the place where we can recognize the truth about God, the truth about ourselves, and the truth about the world in which we live.  It is also the place we can recognize the truth about Satan, the devil.  Because our life is a journey we need this place in order too recognize where we truly

“ 8  We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. 9  Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10  He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope tha

“ 1  Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all his holy people throughout Achaia: 2  Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3  Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4  who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive fr

“ 50  I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51  Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed — 52  in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53  For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with im

“1 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2  By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. 3  For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4  that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 

“ 1  Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy. 2  For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit. 3  But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort. 4  Anyone who speaks in a tongue edifies themselves, but the one who prophesies edifies the church. 5  I would like every one of you to speak in tongue

“ 4  Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. I have witnessed marriages all over the world, and without a doubt, brides and grooms love this text more than any other Bi

“ 24  Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 25  Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. 26  Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. 27  No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached

1  It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father’s wife. 2  And you are arrogant! Should you not rather have mourned, so that he who has done this would have been removed from among you? 3  For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present I have already pronounced judgement 4  in the name of the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing. When y

“ 14  I am not writing this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15  For though you might have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers. Indeed, in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. 16  I appeal to you, then, be imitators of me. 17  For this reason I sent you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, as I teach them everywhere in every church. 18  B