Exploring I Corinthians: A Devotional Commentary - Softcover

Day, Ashley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420841254 ISBN 13: 9781420841251

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2005

Synopsis

The Apostle Paul wrote his first letter to the Christians in Corinth after receiving news of problems within the church there. He had previously ministered in the city for nearly two years and therefore knew the people intimately.We tend to imagine that people who lived two thousand years ago were somehow different from us. They seem distant, imaginary, vapid. Yet human nature has not changed with the passage of time. Customs have changed, fashions have changed, daily living experiences have undergone radical transformations, but the human psyche today is no different from what it was in the time of the Apostle Paul. Hope, fear, lust, desire, love, hate, spirituality and sin are all identical to those affecting society in the first century.Paul''s first letter to the Corinthians was written to real people with real problems. He wrote against the backdrop of first century Grecian life and therefore the actual circumstances he addressed may not apply to us in our twenty-first century western sophistication. However, behind the details lie the same old problems, just as up-to-date as they were when the letter was written.The teaching of 1 Corinthians is very practical and extremely powerful. It deals with subjects that are at the root of many problems in both the church and personal experience today. This book covers every verse of the letter and attempts to explain, in easy to understand language, its deep themes and significance. It is a devotional commentary, in the sense that its purpose is to apply the spiritual principles contained in the letter to the Christian''s daily life.

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About the Author:

Ashley Day began his career as the Administrator of a college of languages in London''s West End. Called into the ministry during one of Billy Graham''s early London crusades, he and his wife, Edna, left the city and took up an itinerant preaching ministry in the South West of England.The Days immigrated to the USA in October, 1959, and since then have ministered in Oregon, Missouri, England and Idaho. After returning to England, to pastor the Brookdale Evangelical Church in Devon, Pastor Day was called back to the United States in 1980 to become the Senior Pastor of the Coeur d''Alene Bible Church, where the Days remained until retirement in 2003. He now serves as Pastor Emeritus.Ashley and Edna Day have been happily married for 53 years and have five children.Seed-Time Ministries began in 1973 and has been used by the Lord to reach tens of thousands of listeners in the United States, Africa, the Middle East, China and the UK. It exists to provide sound Bible exposition through radio broadcasts, tapes, CDs and printed material

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1420841254
• ISBN 13: 9781420841251
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256