The Love Chapter: A Study of 1 Corinthians 13 with Father Reid

The Love Chapter: A Study of 1 Corinthians 13 with Father Reid

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The Love Chapter: A Study of 1 Corinthians 13 with Father Reid episodes

  • 1 Corinthians 13 - The Love Chapter, Episode 2
    Apostle Paul’s “love chapter” was written to a church in Corinth which he believed lacked love. This session explains why great gifts, strong faith, and even abundant giving amount to a “noisy gong” without love. Love isn’t a feeling or a possession. It’s action: seeking the good of others, even enemies, the way Christ loved us. Father Reid walks us through Paul’s opening warnings, trace the command to love across Galatians, Colossians, Ephesians, and Romans, and begin looking at love’s first traits: patient, kind, not envious, not boastful. Father Reid also teaches us a tough truth that love like this is impossible in our own and requires Christ’s power. The episode ends with a call to examine our own lives and pray for a more loving heart.
    1 hr 7 min
  • 1 Corinthians 13 - The Love Chapter, Episode 1

    In the first session of The Love Chapter, Father Reid starts digging into 1 Corinthians 13, probably the most familiar passage in the New Testament and one a lot of us have misunderstood.

    You’ve likely heard it read at a wedding. But Paul wasn’t writing about romance. He was writing to a church in Corinth that was a bit of a mess: divided, proud, arguing over spiritual gifts and who ranked where, and not agreeing on what faithful living even looked like.

    Father Reid puts the chapter back in that setting and shows why it sits exactly where it does. It’s wedged in between Paul’s talk about gifts, worship, and life in the Body of Christ, and it isn’t a sweet little pause in the middle of all that. It’s the center of his whole argument.

    This first lecture kicks off the eight-part series. We look at what the Bible means by love, what agape is and why it matters, and Paul’s bold claim that knowledge, eloquence, faith, sacrifice, and every spiritual gift add up to nothing if love isn’t there.

    And before we get to “love is patient” and “love is kind,” Father Reid asks something more basic. What kind of love is Paul talking about, and what would it take for us to actually live it?


    1 hr 6 min

About The Love Chapter: A Study of 1 Corinthians 13 with Father Reid

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Few passages of Scripture are as familiar—or as frequently quoted—as 1 Corinthians 13. We hear its words at weddings, see them printed on cards, and remember its beautiful declaration that “love…