Topic:God’s Builders READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 3:10-15 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved — even though only as one escaping through the flames. 1 Corinthians 3:14-15 In 2 …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for October 7 – God’s Servants
Topic:God’s Servants READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1-9 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe — as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for October 6 – God’s Teacher
Topic:God’s Teacher READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 2:6-16 …these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for October 5 – God’s Wisdom
Topic:God’s Wisdom READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 2:1-5 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for October 4 – Not Many
Topic:Not Many READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 1:26-31 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for October 2 – Behind Divisions
Topic:Behind Divisions READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 1:10-17 I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for October 1 – Called Into Fellowship
Topic:Called Into Fellowship READ THE SCRIPTURE: 1 CORINTHIANS 1:1-9 God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Corinthians 1:9 This is the key verse of First Corinthians. The rest of the letter revolves around it. It is a statement that God …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for September 30 – How To Love God?
Topic:How To Love God? READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Romans 8:35a How do you love God? You love him by answering this question. Who or what is going to separate us from the love of Christ? Is there any force, anywhere, …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for September 29 – Who Condemns You Now?
Topic:Who Condemns You Now? READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 8:31-34 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died — more than that, who was raised to life — is at …
Read More »Devotional by Ray Stedman for September 27 – All Things
Topic:All Things READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 8:26-28 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, …
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