Monday 17th August 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 98:1-9 1 Corinthians 11:2-34 2 Chronicles 7:11-22, 2 Chronicles 8, 2 Chronicles 9 1 CORINTHIANS 11 The ‘Covering Heads in Worship’ debate has gone on for many centuries. I will not draw any firm conclusions in these notes, except to make some general points from 1 Corinthians 11: The ‘food’ issue resumes when Paul…
Sunday 16th August 2026
Audio readings: Proverbs 20:5-14 1 Corinthians 10:14-33, 1 Corinthians 11:1 2 Chronicles 5:2-14, 2 Chronicles 6, 2 Chronicles 7:1-10 2 CHRONICLES 5, 6 and 7 The Temple, having been completed, it was now time for the Ark to be transported and installed into the Holy of Holies that had been prepared for it. It had been held…
Saturday 15th August 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 97:1-12 1 Corinthians 9:19-27, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 2 Chronicles 2, 2 Chronicles 3, 2 Chronicles 4, 2 Chronicles 5:1 1 CORINTHIANS 10 Like the ominous reversing warning sounds of a heavy goods vehicle, the danger of sin is made very clear to us by the Lord. His scriptures, his Spirit in us, our consciences,…
Friday 14th August 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 96:1-13 1 Corinthians 9:1-18 Ecclesiastes 9:13-18, Ecclesiastes 10, Ecclesiastes 11, Ecclesiastes 12 1 CORINTHIANS 9 Rights, responsibilities, and self-control are the name of the game for Paul. Responsibilities sometimes mean that you exercise self-control so as not to take advantage of your rights, in order to be more effective in your witnessing. Rights: Paul worked hard…
Thursday 13th August 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 95:1-11 1 Corinthians 7:36-40, 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Ecclesiastes 7, Ecclesiastes 8, Ecclesiastes 9:1-12 1 CORINTHIANS 8 These ‘superior’ Corinthian Christians were so proud of their deep knowledge of the truth of the scriptures, which categorically say that there is only one God. They lived in an idolatrous culture that worshiped many different gods and…
Wednesday 12th August 2026
Audio readings: Proverbs 19:23-29, Proverbs 20:1-4 1 Corinthians 7:17-35 Ecclesiastes 4, Ecclesiastes 5, Ecclesiastes 6 ECCLESIASTES 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 The Book of Ecclesiastes. What’s it all about? Who wrote it? Can we believe everything it says? The most likely author of Ecclesiastes is King Solomon, as 1:1 seems to indicate. It was apparently written…
Tuesday 11th August 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 94:12-23 1 Corinthians 7:1-16 Ecclesiastes 1, Ecclesiastes 2, Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 1 CORINTHIANS 7 The Corinthian leaders had already sent Paul a long list of questions or statements on all kinds of lifestyle issues. For example: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman?” (They seem to assume that…
Monday 10th August 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 94:1-11 1 Corinthians 6 2 Chronicles 1:1-17 1 CORINTHIANS 6 Before resuming his teaching on sexual sins, Paul continues where yesterday’s chapter ended: ‘You are judging the wrong people in the wrong places’, he basically says! The Corinthian believers were both judging the ungodly and also taking one another to court to…
Sunday 9th August 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 93:1-5 1 Corinthians 5 1 Chronicles 28, 1 Chronicles 29 1 CORINTHIANS 5 “Hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord” (1 Corinthians 5:5). ‘Sex’ is the main topic in today’s reading. There are sexual unions that God blesses and…
Saturday 8th August 2026
Audio readings: Proverbs 19:13-22 1 Corinthians 4 1 Chronicles 26:20-32, 1 Chronicles 27 1 CORINTHIANS 4 “For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. We are…
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