1 & 2 Corinthians
Devotion on 1 Corinthians 1:17-24
April 8, 2025
Encouraging students to remember to preach Christ and abstain from seeking to prove ourselves in ways that our culture understands status & power.
ListenJesus Christ—God’s Mercies and Comfort: 2 Corinthians 1:3
April 1, 2025
In this praise of God by Paul, we see that Jesus Christ is the substance of God’s mercies and comfort.
ListenI Will Boast of the Things That Show My Weakness: 2 Cor. 11:21b-33
March 25, 2025
The Apostle Paul boasts of weakness in solidarity with Christ and his church. All Christians are to do the same.
ListenLove Bears, Believes, Hopes, and Endures All Things
May 7, 2020
Westminster Seminary California Professor A. Craig Troxel gives a morning devotion from 1 Corinthians 13.
ListenLove Rejoices with the Truth
April 30, 2020
Westminster Seminary California Professor A. Craig Troxel gives a morning devotion from 1 Corinthians 13.
ListenLove is not Irritable or Resentful
April 16, 2020
Westminster Seminary California Professor A. Craig Troxel gives a morning devotion from 1 Corinthians 13.
ListenLove is Unselfish
April 2, 2020
Westminster Seminary California Professor A. Craig Troxel gives a morning devotion from 1 Corinthians 13.
ListenLove is Humble
March 3, 2020
C.S. Lewis wrote that the first step to “acquire humility” is “to realize that one is proud. If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.” Lewis is probably correct that pride shadows us more than we know. Thankfully the Word of God helps us to see how we can re-orient our lives, speech and motives more humbly. Moreover, the eternal Word become flesh helps us to see what humbling oneself looks like; especially when it is motivated by love.
ListenLove is Earnest
February 18, 2020
When Paul says “Love does not envy” he is addressing the earnestness of our desire. A strong or intense desire is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, Scripture tells us to “earnestly desire” higher spiritual gifts among other things (1Cor 12.31). But if we desire or love something in the wrong way and to the wrong degree, then we have entered into the realm of envy. The darkness of envy will not rest until it has snuffed out its rival, even if that rival is the “light of the world.”
ListenWhat Is Love?
February 11, 2020
This series of chapel talks (based on 1Corinthians 13) is intended to answer the question, “What Is Love?” Few questions could be more important or more practical. Our “greatest” duty is to love God with all of our heart and to love our neighbor as ourselves. So, if we miss this, we have missed the most obvious thing of all. This first lesson looks at the two sides of love—in what it is determined to endure and what it is willing to give.
Love is Passive and Active (1Cor 13.4)
ListenPaul’s Paradigm for Building up the Church in 1 Corinthians 3:5 – 4:5
October 24, 2019
A lecture from WSC's new Associate Professor of New Testament, Dr. Bradley J. Bitner
ListenI Corinthians 6:1-8
May 7, 2019
Lawsuits among believers stem from a failure of the church to live in light of its union with Christ.
ListenEvaluating How We Evaluate
April 2, 2019
It is very easy for us to “size people up” and compare ourselves to others.
ListenThe Way of Wisdom in the Church
March 9, 2017
In this passage, Paul would have us realize that even truth, that is true knowledge, becomes folly if it is employed to accopmplish an end for which it is not adapted.
ListenThe God of All Comfort and Mercy
May 10, 2016
The Lord comforts us through the resurrection comfort of Christ, and does this so that we may then pass this comfort on to others as they suffer.
ListenSpiritual Gifts: Are Signs and Wonders for Today?
May 5, 2016
Paul corrects the church in Corinth's worldly view of spiritual gifts by grounding the use of all gifts in love.
ListenMomentary Affliction, Eternal Glory
April 28, 2016
To those who are weary and tired, Paul exhorts them to “not lose heart.” How is this possible? While the afflictions are momentary, eternal glory awaits for those who are in Christ.
ListenA Merciful, Public, Integral Ministry
April 19, 2016
The Apostle Paul's defense of his ministry against the accusations of the self-described “super apostles” and other critics is instructive for ministers young and old. In contrast to theirs, his ministry began with God's mercy to sinners in Christ, was conducted in the open for all to see, and unlike his critics, his preaching and life were consistent.
ListenHow Great is their Darkness
April 14, 2016
In 2 Cor 4:3–6, Paul asserts the deadly work of Satan on unbelievers blinding them to the glory and life-giving light of Christ in his gospel which believers know and which shapes his ministry.
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