Hello! Thank you for listening to this week’s teaching session through 1 Corinthians. Today we’re looking at chapter 13 and especially the first three verses. **Just to clarify about the point concerning Bar Mitzvah and chapter 13 having 13 verses: obviously these are man-made constructions (the original manuscripts didn’t have chapter or verse divisions) butContinue reading “1 Corinthians 13:1-3”
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Love is not Love
We’re currently 27 episodes into our study through the book of 1 Corinthians and have just finished chapter 9. (Search for the Into the Pray podcast and the City of Temples series). Thus far, the two lingering thoughts from the heart and mind of Paul that have stayed with me the most are chapter 2Continue reading “Love is not Love”
Hosea 2: The Promise of Allurement
There is a higher summit. It hangs overs base camp like a shadowy, silhouetting God, incarnate in ancient rock…God is showing us His deepest, highest, widest affections through the churning heart of a husband bereft of the love and loyalty of his wife.
every time you sense God’s anger, try to instead imagine God as being grieved and as being gutted rather than as just waving His great, big, cosmic stick around in fury. I’ve found this a massively helpful distinction in coming closer to the heart of God.
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