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…
Friday 7th August 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 92:1-15 1 Corinthians 3 1 Chronicles 24, 1 Chronicles 25, 1 Chronicles 26:1-19 1 CORINTHIANS 3 Tribalism is the curse of the church! “I follow Paul”; “I follow Apollos” – what a ridiculous line to take! They are both the servants of Christ and are just doing a job for him. The real…
Thursday 6th August 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 91:9-16 1 Corinthians 2:6-16 1 Chronicles 22, 1 Chronicles 23 1 CORINTHIANS 2 “When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified… My message and my preaching were…
Wednesday 5th August 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 91:1-8 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 1 Chronicles 19, 1 Chronicles 20, 1 Chronicles 21 1 CHRONICLES 19, 20, 21 and 22 What started as a kindness ended in a full-scale war. Such is the power of misunderstanding! David simply wanted to express his sympathy to the new king of the Ammonites, over the death of the previous…
Tuesday 4th August 2026
Audio readings: Proverbs 19:3-12 1 Corinthians 1:1-17 1 Chronicles 16:37-43, 1 Chronicles 17, 1 Chronicles 18 1 CORINTHIANS 1 Corinth in AD 55 was a thriving city, the main commercial centre of Greece and a port with two separate harbours, on opposite oceans. Rather than sail all around Southern Greece, smaller ships would be hauled full loaded across a stone road…
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