Writings & Reflections

The Corinthian Problem: A Divided View of the Body The Corinthian believers seem to have been minimizing the weight of bodily conduct. Their slogans in 1 Corinthians 6 suggest that some were treating the body, its appetites, and its actions as spiritually secondary. That way of thinking would not have been strange in a Greco-Roman world where many people were shaped by assumptions that distinguished the higher life of the soul from the lower life of the body. Our Modern Assum

Peace Is Bigger Than Calm We often use the word peace to describe the absence of war. A quiet untroubled room. A settled argument or a day without conflict with you parents, wife or kids. But Scripture presses us toward something so much fuller and deeper that one can hardly imagine it’s fullness, though we have all longed for it barely being able to speak its name. The Hebrew word שָׁלוֹם (shalom) is often translated “peace,” but peace alone can sound too thin if we hear it