Paul for everyone : 1 Corinthians /
Wright, N. T.
Paul for everyone : 1 Corinthians / [print] 1 Corinthians One Corinthians First Corinthians N.T. Wright. - [second edition. - London : SPCK ; (c)2004. Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, (c)2004. - xii, 256 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Thankful for God's grace -- Beware of divisions! -- God's folly -- Boasting in the Lord -- The powerful message of the cross -- God's strange wisdom -- Spiritual or merely human? -- God's farm, God's building -- The coming day, the coming fire -- Everything belongs to you -- Judgment then rather than now -- Apostles on display -- Puffed up or powerful? -- Scandal and judgment -- Get rid of the 'leaven'! -- Lawsuits in the church -- Inheriting God's kingdom or not -- What is the body for? -- Life within marriage -- Marriage and divorce -- Stay the way you were called -- On remaining unmarried -- Divided loyalties -- Meat offered to idols -- Respecting weak consciences -- The 'rights' of an apostle -- Giving up rights for the gospel -- The apostle's freedom to be enslaved to everyone -- The Christian athlete -- The first exodus -- Don't make the same mistake again! -- The table of the Lord and the table of demons -- Do everything to God's glory -- Male and female in the worshipping church -- Rich and poor at the table of the Lord -- Recognizing the body -- The same spirit at work -- Many members, one body -- The responsibilities of each member -- Gifts and ministries -- The need for love and the character of love -- Love: the bridge to God's future -- Priorities in worship -- Speaking clearly in church -- Praying with mind as well as spirit -- Signs for believers and unbelievers -- Final instructions for worship -- The gospel of the Messiah, crucified, buried and risen -- Resurrection gives meaning to present Christian living -- The transformed resurrection body -- The mystery and the victory -- The collection and Paul's plans -- Timothy and Apollos -- The love that stitches it all together.
9780281053056 9780664227913
2006296530
Bible.--Corinthians, 1st--Commentaries.
BS2675 BS2675.W952.P385 2004
Paul for everyone : 1 Corinthians / [print] 1 Corinthians One Corinthians First Corinthians N.T. Wright. - [second edition. - London : SPCK ; (c)2004. Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, (c)2004. - xii, 256 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Thankful for God's grace -- Beware of divisions! -- God's folly -- Boasting in the Lord -- The powerful message of the cross -- God's strange wisdom -- Spiritual or merely human? -- God's farm, God's building -- The coming day, the coming fire -- Everything belongs to you -- Judgment then rather than now -- Apostles on display -- Puffed up or powerful? -- Scandal and judgment -- Get rid of the 'leaven'! -- Lawsuits in the church -- Inheriting God's kingdom or not -- What is the body for? -- Life within marriage -- Marriage and divorce -- Stay the way you were called -- On remaining unmarried -- Divided loyalties -- Meat offered to idols -- Respecting weak consciences -- The 'rights' of an apostle -- Giving up rights for the gospel -- The apostle's freedom to be enslaved to everyone -- The Christian athlete -- The first exodus -- Don't make the same mistake again! -- The table of the Lord and the table of demons -- Do everything to God's glory -- Male and female in the worshipping church -- Rich and poor at the table of the Lord -- Recognizing the body -- The same spirit at work -- Many members, one body -- The responsibilities of each member -- Gifts and ministries -- The need for love and the character of love -- Love: the bridge to God's future -- Priorities in worship -- Speaking clearly in church -- Praying with mind as well as spirit -- Signs for believers and unbelievers -- Final instructions for worship -- The gospel of the Messiah, crucified, buried and risen -- Resurrection gives meaning to present Christian living -- The transformed resurrection body -- The mystery and the victory -- The collection and Paul's plans -- Timothy and Apollos -- The love that stitches it all together.
9780281053056 9780664227913
2006296530
Bible.--Corinthians, 1st--Commentaries.
BS2675 BS2675.W952.P385 2004