Pastoral

  • My Daily Thoughts—2 Corinthians 10:7-11

    2 Corinthians 10:7-11 (WEL) Are you looking at the outward appearance? If anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, then let him remind himself that as he is Christ’s, so are we. 8 For even if I brag a little too much about our authority, which the Lord has given to us for edification…

  • My Daily Thoughts—2 Corinthians 10:1-2

    2 Corinthians 10:1-2 (WEL) Now I, Paul myself—who am insignificant in person, but when absent am assertive towards you—plead with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ. 2 I plead with you, so that when I am present, I won’t have to be bold by the kind of confidence by which I plan…

  • My Daily Thoughts—2 Corinthians 9:3-5

    2 Corinthians 9:3-5 (WEL) Yet, I have sent the brethren, fearing our boasting about you should be a waste of time in this sense, that, as I have said, so that you are ready. 4 Otherwise, if some Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared. We, we, along with you, would be ashamed…

  • My Daily Thoughts—2 Corinthians 9:1-2

    2 Corinthians 9:1-2 (WEL) Concerning the ministering to the saints, it is really not necessary to write to you. 2 I know the eagerness of your mind, of which I brag about you to those of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago, and your zeal has motivated many. Chapter summary: Joseph Benson:…

  • My Daily Thoughts—2 Corinthians 8:22-24

    2 Corinthians 8:22-24 (WEL) We are sending our brother with them, whom we have tested many times in many things. Even now, our brother is very earnest because of his great confidence he has in you. 23 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow helper for you. As for our brethren, they…

  • My Daily Thoughts—2 Corinthians 3:4-6

    2 Corinthians 3:4-6 (WEL) Such confidence we have through Christ toward God, 5 Not that we are self-qualified, but our qualification is from God, 6 Who has also made us qualified to be servants of the New Covenant, not of the letter but of the spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives…

  • My Daily Thoughts—2 Corinthians 2:1-4

    2 Corinthians 2:1-4 (WEL) Paul’s Motivation Was Not to Hurt Them 1 I, myself, made up my mind about this, that I would not come to you again in sadness. 2 For if I make you sad, who is the one who will make me happy, except those whom I made sad? 3 So…

  • My Daily Thoughts—1 Corinthians 11:23-25

    1 Corinthians 11:23-25 (WEL) 23 For I have received from the Lord that which I also passed on to you—that the Lord Jesus on the very same night while he was being betrayed took bread, 24 And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat, for this is my body…

  • My Daily Thoughts—1 Corinthians 11:17-22

    1 Corinthians 11:17-22 (WEL) Now concerning what I’m going to tell you, I don’t praise you, for you don’t assemble together for the best but for the worst. 18 First of all, when you assemble together in the congregation, I hear that there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it. 19 For…

  • My Daily Thoughts—1 Corinthians 9:13-16

    1 Corinthians 9:13-16 (WEL) Don’t you know that those who work around the sacred things live from the things of the temple? And that those who serve at the altar jointly share from the altar? 14 Even so, the Lord has made arrangements that those who are preaching the Good News should make their…