Paul: Apostle and Father – 1 Corinthians 4

As Paul was dealing with the Church in Corinth, he came to them as a spiritual father, not a judge or superior to them. Many things were infecting the lives of the believers in...

Apostolic Humiliation – 1 Corinthians 4

The Apostle Paul started the New Church in Corinth a while back and reported on the leaders’ and believers’ disunity and immaturity. He wrote to the church hoping to see them begin to get...

Planting and Watering the Word – 1 Corinthians 3

Today’s chapter is about God giving the increase for the times we plant and water the seed of the Word of God in people’s lives. The success of The Work of God completely depends...

God’s Wisdom Man’s Ignorance – 1 Corinthians 2

As Paul takes us through his experiences with the flawed Church of Corinth he teaches us that God’s Wisdom is superior to our human ways of maneuvering our lives. I find many times in...

Love and Obedience – 1 John 5

Jesus said, in John 14:15 “ If you love Me, keep My commandments”. Then again in John 14:21, He says, “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me.”...

Seeing God through Love – 1 John 4:14-21

God sent His son, Jesus Christ, to be the Savior of the World. He sent us what we needed because He loves us. We didn’t need a healer or a teacher, we needed a...

Knowing God Through Love – 1 John 4:9-19

God did a lot more than just say He loved us. He made His love toward us visible and public by sending His Son into the world to die for us. The greatest expression...

Testing the Spirit – 1 John 4:1-11

John teaches the Church the significance of knowing whether the teacher we listen to has the Spirit of God or the Spirit of the Antichrist, or the Spirit of the world. We are not...

The Power of the Holy Spirit – 1 Corinthians 2

The fascinating study on the role of the Holy Spirit is to first reveal to us our need for Jesus for our salvation and how we learn about the ways of God. How we...

Holy Spirit The Teacher – 1 Corinthians 1-2

Studying the second part of 1 Corinthians 1, and the beginning of Chapter 2, we see clearly that the work of salvation and opening blind eyes to their need for salvation, forgiveness, and New...

Keeping the Peace – 1 Corinthians 1

In a world where there seems to be no peace, where the populace and churches in general seem clueless about building a loving and Godly consensus, this study is very timely. Corinth was, at...

Love and Hate – 1 John 3:13-24

John warns us that Love and Hate is the difference between life and death. Love is evidence that we have passed from death to life. God is love; if we are born of His...