1 Corinthians 8 1 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.  2 Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.  3 But whoever loves God is known by God. 4 So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.”  5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),  6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, fro ..read more

1 Corinthians 8 1 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.  2 Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.  3 But whoever loves God is known by God. 4 So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.”  5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),  6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, fro ..read more

1 Corinthians 8 1 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.  2 Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.  3 But whoever loves God is known by God. 4 So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.”  5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),  6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, fro ..read more

John 20:1-29 1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.  2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” 3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb.  4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.  5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in.  ..read more

Isaiah 53:3-7 3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,   a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces   he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. 4 Surely he took up our pain   and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God,   stricken by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,   he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him,   and by his wounds we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,   ..read more

Philippians 2:1-11 1 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,  2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.  3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,  4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Wh ..read more

1 Corinthians 7:36-40 36 If anyone is worried that he might not be acting honorably toward the virgin he is engaged to, and if his passions are too strong and he feels he ought to marry, he should do as he wants. He is not sinning. They should get married. 37 But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no compulsion but has control over his own will, and who has made up his mind not to marry the virgin—this man also does the right thing. 38 So then, he who marries the virgin does right, but he who does not marry her does better. 39 A woman is bound to her husband a ..read more

Haggai 1:12-15 12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the Lord their God had sent him. And the people feared the Lord. 13 Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, gave this message of the Lord to the people: “I am with you,” declares the Lord.  14 So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the peop ..read more

Ben Edwards is Dean of Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. You can read his bio here: https://dbts.edu/faculty-edwards/ 1 Corinthians 15:12-19 12 But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?  13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.  14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.  15 More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from t ..read more

1 Corinthians 7:32-35 32 I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs—how he can please the Lord.  33 But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife—  34 and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord’s affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband.  35 I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you ..read more