2 CORINTHIANS9:6-8 – Remember this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously. Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way,…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
1 Corinthians
This Lord’s Day evening, Pastor Jim returns to his sermon series in 1 Corinthians 13 – the life of love – looking at the negative trait of love that is not resentful. We will look at the destructed nature of what a resentful heart truly is – unforgiving and gripped in bitterness.
1 CORINTHIANS 11:1 – Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.” 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 society did so exactly as we are doing in our…
The eighth quality of the love to constrain the lives of God’s children in relationships with one another – Love is not irritable.
This Lord’s Day evening, we continue our series loving as Jesus loved – the chief fruit of revival. We are looking at the descriptions of true love as defined in 1 Corinthians 13 and are landing on the sixth quality and the one causing us the most trouble in loving like the Lord – love does not insist on its own way (the sin of selfishness).
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all…