Mar 30, 2009 | SOAP Journal
SCRIPTURE: Judg. 8; Ps. 42; 1 Cor. 15 1 Corinthians 15:16-20 If corpses can’t be raised, then Christ wasn’t, because he was indeed dead. And if Christ weren’t raised, then all you’re doing is wandering about in the dark, as lost as ever....
Mar 25, 2009 | SOAP Journal
SCRIPTURE: Josh. 21-22; Ps. 47; 1 Cor. 10 1 Corinthians 10:11-12 These are all warning markers—danger!—in our history books, written down so that we don’t repeat their mistakes. Our positions in the story are parallel—they at the beginning, we at the end—and we...
Mar 24, 2009 | SOAP Journal
Scripture: Josh. 18-20; 1 Cor. 9 1 Corinthians 9: 19-23 Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: religious, nonreligious, meticulous moralists,...
Mar 23, 2009 | SOAP Journal
Scripture: Josh. 15-17; 1 Cor. 8 1 Corinthians 8:7b We need to be sensitive to the fact that we’re not all at the same level of understanding in this. Some of you have spent your entire lives eating “idol meat,” and are sure that there’s...
Mar 22, 2009 | SOAP Journal
Scripture: Josh. 12-14; 1 Cor. 7 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 I do want to point out, friends, that time is of the essence. There is no time to waste, so don’t complicate your lives unnecessarily. Keep it simple —in marriage, grief, joy, whatever. Even in ordinary...
Mar 21, 2009 | SOAP Journal
Scripture: Josh. 9-11; 1 Cor. 6 Joshua 9:3-6 The people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai and cooked up a ruse. They posed as travelers: their donkeys loaded with patched sacks and mended wineskins, threadbare sandals on their feet, tattered...
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