Month: July 2013

1 Corinthians 1:18 to 2:5 – Whose way (or who) dominates?

This is the fourth post in the series on Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. The question we are asking is: What does this letter teach us about being a community of faith in diverse cultural contexts? And the passage for this post is 1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5. In this passage Paul is continuing to address…

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1 Cor. 1:10-17 – Divisions Caused By Elitism

This is the third post in the series on Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. The question we are asking is: What does this letter teach us about being a community of faith in diverse cultural contexts? And the passage for this post is 1 Corinthians 1:10-17. One problem that consistently surfaced in the communities…

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1 Co. 1:1-9 – What does it mean to be a Christ-centered community?

This is the second post in a series of posts on Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. As I work through this letter I am asking this question: What does it mean to be communities of faith in our diverse cultural contexts? I like 1 Corinthians because it is earthy. The Corinthians had real problems and…

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Looking at I Corinthians

I am beginning a series of posts on 1 Corinthians. As I work through this letter I will be asking this question: What does it mean to be communities of faith in diverse cultural contexts? I prefer the phrase community of faith over church because I think it better describes what the Scripture meant by the word ekklesia.…

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Jesus in the Qur'an

People often do not realize how much Jesus is talked about in the Qur’an. He is referred to more than even the Prophet of Islam. Below I have listed most (if not all) of the verses in the Qur’an that speak about Jesus. I draw from the translation by A. Yusuf Ali with some slight modifications. 2:87 We…

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