CGG Weekly published this essay as “Do We See Our Calling?” on May 31, 2024. For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. —I Corinthians 1:26 We are all aware of what the apostle Paul writes …
This essay, “Spiritual Gifts: Unity, Edification, and Order,” appeared in CGG Weekly on July 29, 2022. “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant.” —I Corinthians 12:1 The members of the early Corinthian church held a keen interest in spiritual gifts. The congregation’s founder, the apostle …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “Marriage—A God-Plane Relationship (Part Seven),” on March 5, 2010. “. . . and they shall become one flesh.” —Genesis 2:24c The biblical concept of husband and wife being “one flesh” is far more involved than many people think. This teaching has its origins in Genesis 2:24: “Therefore …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “Marriage—A God-Plane Relationship (Part Six),” on February 26, 2010. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife . . ..” —Genesis 2:24a-b Moses writes in Genesis 2:24, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to …
Originally “Marriage—A God-Plane Relationship (Part Three),” this essay appeared in CGG Weekly on February 5, 2010. “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it . . ..’” —Genesis 1:28 Last time, we saw that it is God’s involvement that …
This essay was first published as a CGG Weekly essay, “Whither the Holy Spirit?” on February 8, 2013. “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” —Romans 1:7 Most Bible students realize that most of the New Testament books are letters—epistolé in Greek and our “epistle,” which is …
I first let this little Random Bible Verse comment into the world on October 26, 2013. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. —I Corinthians …
