Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
593 1 Corinthians in Context 10: Christology
What does 1 Corinthians tell us about Christ? After a brief survey of the main ideas about Christ in the epistle, we’ll turn our attention to understanding 1 Corinthians 8.6. This verse has been a li…
Published on 9 months ago
592 1 Corinthians in Context 9: Food Sacrificed to Idols
Although often overlooked today, whether or not to eat food that had been sacrificed to idols was a major issue in first-century Christianity, especially in urban centers like Corinth. The city was t…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
591 1 Corinthians in Context 8: Marriage, Divorce, and Remmarriage
The Romans looked at families and marriage very differently than most of us do today. In this session we’ll cover arranged marriages, the double standard for adultery, and the new Roman Women who wer…
Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago
590 1 Corinthians in Context 7: Lawsuits
How should Christians deal with internal disputes? As with so many other issues, the Christians in Corinth were failing to distinguish between the body of Christ and the world. Today we’ll consider w…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
589 1 Corinthians in Context 6: Homosexuality & Singleness
So often we default to categories of thought prevalent in our time and without realizing it, read them into the Bible. As it turns out, first-century people living in Corinth did not think about sexu…
Published on 10 months ago
588 1 Corinthians in Context 5: Sexual Immorality
Do you know what blows my mind? That with all the permissiveness and sinfulness of the Roman world, what the Corinthian Christians were doing shocked Paul. He said that the sexual immorality of one m…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
587 1 Corinthians in Context 4: Philosophy & Wisdom
Paul wrote extensively about worldly wisdom in 1 Corinthians. Due to the prevalence and esteem of philosophical schools, Paul probably felt a need to explain how Christianity measured up. In this lec…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
586 1 Corinthians in Context 3: Factions & Status at Corinth
Now that we’ve familiarized ourselves with the city of Corinth and Paul’s missionary activity there, we’re ready to dive into 1 Corinthians. As I mentioned previously, my strategy for this class is t…
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
585 1 Corinthians in Context 2: Paul Founds the Church at Corinth
How did Christianity come to Corinth in the first place? Although many times we are left speculating about how an ancient church got started, we have definitive knowledge about the Corinthian church …
Published on 11 months ago
584 1 Corinthians in Context 1: Corinth as the Context
Today we’re beginning something new. I’ve been working on this class on 1 Corinthians for months and months. I had taken classes on 1 Corinthians at Boston University twice. The first time we just re…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago