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My Body

My body is God’s temple Entrusted to my care; His Holy Spirit indwells me: God’s love is shining there. So I may not abuse it Nor endanger needlessly, But keep it pure and holy, From all corruption free. For God has bought me dearly, The price: His only Son Who suffered all the pangs of […]

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The Body: A Temple of the Holy Spirit

The above-named theme is taken directly from Paul’s epistles to the Corinthians, in I Cor. 6:19 and II Cor. 6:16.  Besides these two passages where the Apostle speaks with reference to the individual Christian, the Church of Christ is also referred to as God’s temple in several passages. Concerning this figure of a temple, we […]

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I am Joe

You have been reading the reports of my anatomy, sounding off as though they were entities of themselves; as though they were autonomous; as though they walk, talk, or beat on their own. I am fed-up with all that yakkety-yak going on in my house. I, Joe, am going to put a stop to that […]

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I Corinthians 15:35-16:24

  LESSON 49 “With What Body do They Come?” I Cor. 15:35-44 It is perhaps the skeptic asking: if there is a resurrection, what kind of bodies will men have as Philosophers now as the Sadducees then, ridiculed the idea of a resurrection by such questions. Paul ushers the question to the front (vs. 35). […]

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