Knowledge Puffs, Love Builds Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2026 Readings: 1 Corinthians 8 | Psalm 82 The first century marketplace in Corinth was a spiritual minefield. Meat sold in the market had often been offered to idols, and some believers felt free to eat it, while others felt it compromised their loyalty to Christ. Paul Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Stay Put Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2026 Readings: 1 Corinthians 7 | Psalm 81 Corrie ten Boom never married. In the 1930s she was a watchmaker in Haarlem, living above the family shop with her father and sister, and she once hoped for a different future. Yet that unassuming household became a hiding Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Paid in Full Date: Monday, October 5, 2026 Readings: 1 Corinthians 6 | Psalm 80 In 1846, Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist and former slave, was a celebrity in Britain, but legally he was still someone’s property. His admirers there raised roughly 150 pounds and paid his former owner for his freedom. Douglass Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Unfinished Cathedral Date: Sunday, October 4, 2026 Readings: 1 Corinthians 3 | Psalm 79 Construction on the Sagrada Família in Barcelona began in 1882. The architect Antoni Gaudí took over the project a year later and devoted the rest of his life to it. He knew he would never see it finished. When Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Straw and Glory Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026 Readings: 1 Corinthians 2 | Psalm 78:38-72 Thomas Aquinas was arguably the greatest theologian of the Middle Ages, a man who dictated to several secretaries at once and left behind millions of words. Then, on December 6, 1273, something happened while he was celebrating Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
Ancient Grafitti Date: Friday, October 2, 2026 If Romans is the constitution of the church, 1 Corinthians is the operating model. Check out this overview of 1 Corinthians from the Bible Project as we jump into Paul's second longest letter describing what life in the church should look like. Readings: Jesse Lund • Daily Devotionals
