In this session we wrapped up chapter 7 where St. Paul discussed the issue of marriage and state of life, and we moved into Chapter 8 on the offering of meat to idols. There was an issue with the Corinthian Christians, having so many pagan temples: most of the meat offered at the marketplace were … Continued

The First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians, part #9 of our audio series is the 7th chapter of the letter where Paul addresses the issues of marriage, remarriage, divorce, celibacy and chastity. It is a difficult discussion TODAY just as it was in St. Paul’s day!   http://stjohnjackson.org/scripture_study/1_Corinthians_Pg_17_18.pdf

​In our 8th session we focused on St. Paul’s 6th chapter of his first letter to the Church in Corinth. The discussion of the group went all over the map with the hot moral topics of our day! In the interest of time (ha!) much of that discussion was edited out for our podcast​​, but … Continued

​In Chapter 5 of 1 Corinthian, St. Paul begins to address the specific issues that he has heard about that have been dividing the Church in Corinth. This chapter gave us great discussion on excommunication, mercy, forgiveness, and the expectation that Christians SHOULD judge those INSIDE the Church, but NOT those OUTSIDE. http://stjohnjackson.org/scripture_study/1_Corinthians_Pg_13_14.pdf

In Episode 6 of our study in 1 Corinthians, we dig deep into the Catholic approach to Scripture with the LITERAL sense and the SPIRITUAL senses of Scripture. This episode begins at the end of Chapter 3, and we’ll talk about discension, the cross, the wisdom of the world versus the wisdom of God. This … Continued