If you’ve been out on a nice starry night, you’ve known what it’s like to look up at the stars and see how glorious they are. But can you see them during the day? No, because there’s something much more glorious up in the sky. The sun has risen, and its brightness washes out that which was really very glorious […]

In verse 4, Paul talks about trust. He uses a word there that has the idea of a confidence. A confidence in which you can rest so that there is no doubt in your mind that that object that you are placing your trust in will do exactly what you are intending it to do. Paul speaks of the trust […]

Some were bringing charges against Paul or questioning his authority. Paul says, do I need to recommend myself again? Do I need to have a letter of recommendation from some other church? Paul asks it almost incredulously to the Corinthians. And why is that? That’s because the Corinthian church knew and experienced the work of Paul. Paul wasn’t putting himself […]