1 Corinthians - To the Church of God #5 - Maturity, Part 2
July 15, 2022
The great need of an infantile church like the Corinthians, and the great need of our celebrity, evangelical sub-culture today, is maturity. Paul speaks to the Corinthians about gaining wisdom.
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Corinth was thriving in many ways and was seen as the place to be if you were a big name orator of the day. It was a wealthy city with popular entertainment and a high estimation of speaking gifts. Paul challenges the Corinthians that they had become too focused on following these speakers rather than Christ.
July 14, 2022
How do we explain the trinity? God reveals the trinity in the Old Testament, and then more clearly in Christ, and when we're in heaven, we'll understand it even more. Learn more about the trinity in this message.
July 13, 2022
Many people today think that Christianity only has superficial answers to today's problems. If we as Christians are not persuaded that the greatest answer to our most difficult problems are found in Jesus, then we'll go elsewhere to find the solutions. We must be convinced that in Him is all beauty, love, and knowledge, and then we'll find our resting place in Him.
July 12, 2022
We are continuing to looking at true power and wisdom with an illustration from pop culture—the Jonas Brothers.
July 11, 2022
Adding something to Jesus detracts from Jesus because then he is no longer enough. Jesus becomes merely a stage in my spiritual development rather than my destination.
July 9, 2022
The great questions that many people in Christian circles are asking are, "Where is the Christian influence that we once had in society? What are we to do with this secular agenda?" Paul encourages us that the Church has faced opposition before, and we have the power of God to help us.
July 8, 2022
When you listen to preaching, you want to make sure you're listening to someone who is preaching the Bible, rather than expressing their own personality. You don't want preachers who just tell you what they think; you want to know what the Lord thinks through the Word. This is a critically important distinctive, to hear what the Lord is saying and not just what the preacher thinks.
July 7, 2022
There were celebrity preachers who had developed a following in the Corinthian church. We are susceptible to this today, too. We have a tendency to follow someone we admire, and sometimes this creates division within the church. Learn what Paul has to say about this.
July 6, 2022
Paul begins by pointing us to God. That's the first thing that gets lost when church begins to go wrong. It starts to be about us, about me and my agenda. It starts to be a human organization. By studying Corinthians, we will find out what the church is meant to be like and how we can get there, and what Christians are really meant to be.
July 5, 2022
There is power in living out our faith. The Christian faith is not simply a Sunday thing, it's something for every day of the week. Today we look at how our faith effects our family, work, and the church.
July 4, 2022
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One group says the Bible is a book about love, mercy, and kindness. They think of the story of the Good Samaritan and of Jesus telling us to turn the other cheek. So how could anyone think the Bible prevents a tolerant society? But for another group, the Bible is far from tolerant. There’s the conquest of Canaan. There’s Elijah killing Baal’s prophets by his own hand. And in the New Testament, Jesus talks often about hell. That’s not tolerant. What then can we say in answer to this question? Get your free resource and learn more today!