If we have hoped in Christ for this life only , we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. From 1 Corinthians 15: 12-20, NRSV Although naturalists are finding evidence that some species of animals recognise…
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Last of all… Christ appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me has not been in vain. From 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11,…
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For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. From 1 Corinthians 12: 31 – 13:13, NRSV For many of us, as soon as we hear the words “if I…
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Just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. From 1…
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The Lord said to Moses, ‘Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.’ So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live. From Numbers…
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Refrain from strife, and your sins will be fewer; for the hot-tempered kindle strife,and the sinner disrupts friendships and sows discord among those who are at peace. From Ecclesiasticus 27: 33 – 28:9 NRSV) The Reading today labours the point about forgiveness and avoiding enmity with those around us – over and over again! As…
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The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. From 1 Corinthians…
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For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. To the weak I became weak, so that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I might by any means save some.…
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Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge; but anyone who loves God is known by him. From 1 Corinthians 8: 1-7, 11-13 (NRSV) Paul continues his response to the questions and concerns of the Christian community at Corinth. The issue today concerns…
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I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no possessions, and those…
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