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 …
Do you remember when I said last week that I cringe when people say we should become the New Testament church? And that the reason I cringed is because the New Testament church was such a mess? Well, this morning’s passage is even more cringe-worthy than what Paul has addressed …
Isn’t it amazing—and tragic—when worldly values such as prestige or who is more important creeps into the family of Christ? But it’s ever been so, hasn’t it? Even Jesus’ inner circle, the twelve disciples whom he personally called, could be worldly at times.[1] At one point James and John came …
After reminding these Corinthian believers that their salvation, their sanctification, their equipping for ministry, and their being called into fellowship with God and one another were all God’s doing, last week we saw Paul begin his long rebuke of this church since it wasn’t living in accordance with the oneness …
As we continue in our study of I Corinthians this morning, we’re going to see a sharp pivot in tone from Paul following his introduction and greeting last week when we saw Paul’s gracious embrace of this church as he extended them God’s grace and peace and assured them of …
Though we’ve only just finished celebrating the coming of our Lord Christ into the world in the form of baby Jesus in a manger, I’ve begun to look ahead to Easter. When I saw that the common lectionary I’ve been using to guide my sermon passages had turned to I …
Last week we considered the first chapter in John’s Gospel as he wrote about the Word—Christ, the Messiah—who was with God in the beginning, was God, and whose glory was beheld in the person of Jesus. We also saw how all of the writers of the Gospels—not only John, but …
