Podcast Episodes

"Sex and Marriage" Season Three/Episode Twelve (1 Corinthians 7:1-11)

Season 3 Episode 12

Episode Synopsis:

Sex and marriage were pressing issues in Corinth.  Gentiles who came to faith in Jesus Christ during Paul’s Gentile mission were learning the biblical sexual ethic for the first time…

Published on 1 year ago

"Flee From Sexual Immorality" Season Three/Episode Eleven (1 Corinthians 6:12-20)

Season 3 Episode 11

Episode Synopsis:

It has been said that prostitution is the world’s old profession.  In reality, tending a garden and naming animals is.  But if you lived in first century Corinth you lived in a city …

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

"Washed, Sanctified, Justified" Season Three/Episode Ten (1 Corinthians 6:1-11)

Season 3 Episode 10

Episode Synopsis:

Corinth was a booming city with lots of new money and great stress upon the power and prestige that goes with it.  One way to enhance your public image was to take advantage of those…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

"A Man Has His Father's Wife" Season Three/Episode Nine (1 Corinthians 5:1-13)

Season 3 Episode 9

Episode Synopsis:

When passing through Ephesus, where Paul was living at the time, members of Chloe’s family informed Paul of a situation in the Corinthian church of such a serious nature that Paul is…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

"Shall I Come With a Rod?" Season Three/Episode Eight (1 Corinthians 4:1-21)

Season 3 Episode 8

Episode Synopsis:

Paul expressed a fair bit of righteous anger in his letter to the Galatians–calling those taken in by false teachers foolish people who have been all-too easily bewitched by false te…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

"You Are God's Temple" Season Three/Episode Seven (1 Corinthians 3:1-23)

Season 3 Episode 7

Episode Synopsis:

So what will it be?  Milk or meat?  Are the Corinthians spiritual toddlers?  Or are they mature Christians?  Since they are being drawn to the factions forming within the church (“I …

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

"Preaching as a Demonstration of the Spirit's Power" Season Three/Episode Six (1 Corinthians 2:1-16)

Episode Synopsis:

Paul did not come to Corinth as a typical sage, sophist, or philosopher.  He was an unimpressive rabbi and made no attempt to embrace Greco-Roman rhetorical techniques to keep an aud…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

"Christ and Him Crucified" Season Three/Episode Five (1 Corinthians 1:18-31)

Season 3 Episode 5

Episode Synopsis:

The cross of Jesus Christ is utter foolishness to those who are perishing in their sins.  Yet, Paul tells the Corinthians that through message of the cross God reveals his wisdom and…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

"Be United" -- Season Three/Episode Four -- 1 Corinthinians 1:10-17

Season 3 Episode 4

Episode Synopsis:

Paul has gotten some rather bad news.  Members of Chloe’s family (presumably people Paul had known from his time in Corinth) had come to Ephesus (where Paul was currently laboring). …

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

"Called to Be Saints" Season Three/Episode Three -- 1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Season 3 Episode 3

Episode Synopsis:

In the opening 9 verses of Paul’s first Corinthian letter, Paul sets the stage for what is to come.  Although he was in Corinth for some eighteen months and knew many of those to who…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago