Nearly half of Americans say they’re more anxious than last year. 1 Corinthians 7 offers a different answer than the ‘reset’ everyone’s reaching for — and it starts with obedience, not circumstances.
Most believers who struggle with temptation aren’t trying to sin — they’re trying to manage. They set limits, move the guardrails, and try to keep it at a safe distance. But Scripture doesn’t prescribe management. It prescribes one word: Flee. Here’s what 1 Corinthians 6 says about self-gratification, your body, and the only strategy that actually works.
She had attended three different churches in two years. The first had great music. The second had a dynamic speaker. The third felt warm the moment she walked through the door. But sitting in her car after that third Sunday service, she called her sister and said something that stopped the conversation cold: “I still don’t know if any of these places are actually a church.” She wasn’t being cynical. She was asking a serious question — one that more people are asking out loud right now than at any point in a generation.
When believers drag one another into secular courtrooms over material things, the testimony of Christ pays the price. A verse-by-verse study of 1 Corinthians 6:1–8 — and what God’s Blueprint says about keeping the family’s business in the family.
When a congregation ignores the clear instruction of God’s Word, He does not shrug and move on. He does not lower His standard to meet their comfort. He writes again — this time with greater clarity, greater urgency, and an expanded list of exactly what He requires. We are holding that second letter in our hands right now.
America has abandoned God — and the consequences are visible everywhere. But while a nation can lose its way, the local church cannot afford to follow. From 1 Corinthians 5, here is what God’s Word says about leaven, the cost of tolerated sin, and why the beacon must not go dark.
When sin was openly known in the Corinthian church and nobody said a word, Paul didn’t call it tolerance — he called it pride. A closer look at 1 Corinthians 5:1–2 and what the church’s silence is still costing us today.
Every church has an elephant in the room — one sin nobody wants to name. The Holy Spirit names it plainly in 1 Corinthians 4: pride. Here’s what it costs a church, and two practical ways to deal with it.