• Single and Serving God-1 Cor 7:32-35

  Whether single, engaged, married [widowed or divorced], will you live in undivided and undistracted devotion to Christ (1 Cor 7:35)? If married, do you live as if not married (1 Cor 7:29)? […obviously, while still faithful to […]

  November 2, 2020 1 Corinthians, New Testament, Sermons

• Happily Eschatologically Single-1 Cor 7:25-31

  Do you live, think, reason and emote eschatologically? What does being single or married or anything else in life [such as the election results] have to do with eschatology? Let’s learn from Paul why everything has to do with eschatology–whether […]

  October 29, 2020 1 Corinthians, New Testament, Sermons

• Remain with God-1 Cor 7:17-24

  Itching to change our human circumstances is our human tendency and default because of FOMO, believing that change would improve our lives. So if you’re smoking, stopping is good. But the converse […]

  October 24, 2020 1 Corinthians, New Testament, Sermons

• No Divorce-1 Cor 7:8-16

  Settling down in simplicity. When I married on Aug 15, 1981 less than a year after becoming a Christian, I said to myself, �Well I guess that�s it for the […]

  October 12, 2020 1 Corinthians, New Testament, Sermons

• Sex in Marriage-1 Cor 7:1-7

  Being attracted to an attractive person is not a sin in and of itself. Talking about sex as a Christian is uncomfortable, likely because of the proliferation and easy accessibility of pornography and the widespread acceptance […]

  October 11, 2020 1 Corinthians, New Testament, Sermons

• Your Body is NOT Yours-1 Cor 6:12-20

  𝑫𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 OUR BODIES DO NOT BELONG TO US 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆? �I�m free to do anything� is the Corinthian Christian�s favorite […]

  October 7, 2020 1 Corinthians, New Testament, Sermons

• You Were Cleansed by the Name-1 Cor 6:1-11

  If someone from the church cheats and deceives you and you lose lots of money to them, will you sue them? Why or why not? How does 1 Cor 6:2, 3, 10 share Paul’s common […]

  September 30, 2020 1 Corinthians, New Testament, Sermons

• Excommunication-1 Cor 5:1-13

  Will you confront, discipline and expel someone close to you in the church because they are “sinning” ️(1 Cor 5:2, 5, 7, 13)? Can you not waver and judge and pronounce judgment in the church (1 Cor 5:12b-13)? […]

  September 25, 2020 1 Corinthians, New Testament, Sermons

• Imitate Me-1 Cor 4:14-21

  Do you model�and�embody�for others the meaning of the gospel?�The�goal�of�all Christians�is to be so Chrislike and to so�embody Christ�that we can say [confidently and humbly] to other Christians, �Imitate me� (1 […]

  September 16, 2020 1 Corinthians, New Testament, Sermons

• When You Are Scum-1 Cor 4:6-13

  Do you suffer like Christ, like Paul, until others think you�re out of allignment�that you�re like scum?�There�s a jarring personal dissonance and disconnect to answer this while I�m comfortably reading […]

  September 12, 2020 1 Corinthians, New Testament, Sermons