Tag: Wisdom

 

We are often tempted to a ‘One slogan fits all’ approach to life, even the Christian life. The biblical approach is much fuller – Galatians 5:13.

1. We are our brother’s keeper.
   • 8:7. Kenneth Bailey met a fellow in South Sudan who had come from worshipping the red snake as

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Paul has been wrestling with the Corinthians who have become divided over human teachers and wisdom.

1. A right view of the Church.
   • 3:16-17. Ten times in 1 Corinthians Paul says: ‘Do you not know?’ In other words, he expects us to know this. The Holy Spirit indwells the individual

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Human wisdom does not explain the way of salvation – 1:18; whom God calls to Himself – 1:27; nor whom God uses to make known the gospel – 2:4-5. When Timothy McVeigh was executed on 11 June 2001 as the Oklahoma City bomber who took 168 lives, he quoted …