Westminster Seminary California Professor A. Craig Troxel gives a morning devotion from 1 Corinthians 13.

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Westminster Seminary California Professor A. Craig Troxel gives a morning devotion from 1 Corinthians 13.

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Westminster Seminary California Professor A. Craig Troxel gives a morning devotion from 1 Corinthians 13.

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Westminster Seminary California Professor A. Craig Troxel gives a morning devotion from 1 Corinthians 13.

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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.

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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." 

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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)

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A lecture from WSC's new Associate Professor of New Testament, Dr. Bradley J. Bitner

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Lawsuits among believers stem from a failure of the church to live in light of its union with Christ. 

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It is very easy for us to "size people up" and compare ourselves to others.

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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.

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Paul corrects the church in Corinth's worldly view of spiritual gifts by grounding the use of all gifts in love.

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Is not the kingdom of God a place where love reigns? Then, as Christians how are we to live so that the gospel of Jesus Christ reaches others?

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An analysis of how Christ's resurrection sheds light on one of the most controversial passages in the New Testament.

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Your call to belong to Christ through the Spirit's gospel work is to be worked out in your callings of everyday life.

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