This Lord’s Day morning, Pastor Jim concludes a two week series on the suffering. This Lord’s Day we observe the Apostle Paul and the suffering he persevered through and the lessons God would have us learn from our suffering.
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
2 Corinthians
2 CORINTHIANS 11:23-28 – Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. 24 Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times…
2 CORINTHIANS 1:8-10 – For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises…
The great missionary Hudson Taylor was interviewing potential candidates for the mission field. He asked each one, “What motivates you for wanting to serve the Lord in a faraway land?”
This Lord’s Day evening, Pastor Jim will take us through portions of the Apostle Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians, chapters 3, 4, and 5. Within these chapters, are such encouraging words describing the radical applications of the Gospel in the life of the believer.
2 CORINTHIANS 7:5-7 – For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us…