Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

1 Corinthians

Would We Want That To Happen?

1 CORINTHIANS 11:1 – Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. THEME OF THE DAY: WOULD WE WANT THAT TO HAPPEN?  Imagine this picture.  What if our churches were filled with the type of Christians we are? Serious thought, huh?  Then extend that to a broader application.  Imagine if every Christian living out their routines and callings in life and…

Motivated By Love

1 CORINTHIANS 16:14 – Let all that you do be done in love.”   It is less than ten words, yet, like a small stick of dynamite, it contains enormous power. In fact, it is the greatest power in the earth.  It heals hurts.  It carries burdens.  It lifts the downcast.  It removes the dark clouds of depression.  And in God’s work…

Looking to Jesus

1 CORINTHIANS 1:30-31 – And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”   The writer of the letter to the Hebrews would tell us how the Christian life is lived – Therefore, since we…

The Power of the Gospel

1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-5 – Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died…