1 Corinthians 15:35-36 35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36 You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38 But God ...

In follow up to my previous post I want to spend some time on some of what seem to me to be the main ideas in 1 Cor 15. In this chapter Paul deals quite thoroughly with the concept of resurrection and yet many believers are quite unfamiliar with its content. I begin with Paul’s initial affirmation of faith, his ...

Isaiah 26:16-19 16 O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them. 17 Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O Lord; 18 we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to ...

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. For in hope we have been ...