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1 Corinthians: Holiness and Hope of a Rescued People is unavailable, but you can change that!

First Corinthians is Paul’s masterly pastoral letter to a church, which he founded five years earlier, but which in the meantime has lost its way. In Ephesus, Paul was visited by various groups from Corinth bringing disturbing reports of recent developments, but also a list of questions. A little sleuthing helps us recover an idea of the problems in Corinth as well as the questions to which they...

fathers’ were blessed by God in the exodus and the food and drink of the early days of their journey, he then drops his bombshell, ‘with most of them God was not well pleased.’ But with most of them God was not pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Following the exodus the Israelites remained at Mt Sinai for a year. It was after their departure towards the Land that their problems began. Within just a few weeks travelling north they reached the oasis at Kadesh Barnea at the
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