Sermons from May 2019
God’s Definition of Agape Love (1 Cor. 13:1-7)
Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially,live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in…
Agape’s Love Language (1 Cor. 13:1-6)
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love [agapē] that God has for us. God is love [agapē] , and whoever abides in love [agapē] abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love [agapē] perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no…
The Most Excellent Way (1 Cor. 13:1-3)
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this…
The Characteristics of a Healthy Body (1 Cor. 12:12-31)
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think…