1 Cor. 4:7–8 For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not? Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign—and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you! Read the context As a kid it's easy to share what you have. Money? Food? You got it from a parent who has more to give. God wants you to...

1 Cor. 4:1–2 This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. Read the context When you borrow something, you tend to treat it well. You don't want to be known as the one who broke something borrowed. Paul talks about sharing God's word in the same way. The message isn't his — it belongs to God. It's both a blessing and a challenge to treat...

Isaiah 6:5–8 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for...