On this morning when we have an opportunity to celebrate Easter Sunday—Resurrection Sunday—it is worth noting that it is impossible to profess belief in Jesus Christ if we don’t believe he rose from the dead; it is impossible to profess belief in Jesus Christ if we don’t believe in the …
In celebrating Palm Sunday this past Sunday, we saw how the crowds of thousands who celebrated Jesus as King and prophet understood who he was—but only in part. For though they wanted him to be their King and so waved their palm branches as an expression of this desire—much like …
Palm Sunday is a day on which we arrive to the last chapter in the story of King Jesus’ earthly life. It is the last chapter in the story of King Jesus’—who is also Savior and Lord of all who believe him in—last week on earth; a week that that …
Last week we considered the importance of balancing our spiritual gifts with using those gifts from a motive of love. A spiritual gift, whether a natural one like administration or a supernatural one like healing, should never be viewed as an end in itself. Rather all spiritual gifts—and we mustn’t …
As we’ve been working through Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, a theme we continue to see time and again is that because God is One—and has given his Holy Spirit to those who are his—then those who are his are also One not only with him (which is incredible …
In this morning’s passage Paul turns his focus specifically to what is—or isn’t—appropriate behavior during public worship. Specifically in this chapter he addresses two areas. First, head coverings for men and women and what these coverings symbolically represent. Second, the eating of meals within the context of the church family …
This morning we continue to see matters that the Corinthians church has raised with Paul. And because I have planned these sermons with the goal of preaching on I Corinthians 15 on Easter morning, I have chosen representative passages from the three chapters we’ll be looking at in chapters 8–10 …
So far as we’ve been considering this letter from Paul to the church in Corinth, what we’ve seen is that after having briefly greeted these believers, Paul dove right in and began to address reports he had heard—at least some from the home of a woman named Chloe whom Paul …
This morning in our ongoing study of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, we’re going to consider a Scriptural—which is to say a radical—understanding of freedom. My desktop dictionary defines freedom as “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.” A definition along …
This past week as Ron and I were visiting with some friends, we shared with them something that one of our seminary professors said in class one day, namely, that the church is a microcosm of the world—by which he meant that there is no sin or immoral behavior that …
