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More Than a Gong - July 15, 2018
This is a popular passage, most of us have heard it more than a few times. Even folks who don't go to church have probably heard this somewhere...in popular culture, in a movie, at a wedding...it's pretty well known. But we don't always look at it in context, so we're going to take a bit to look a little at the bigger picture.
1 Corinthians is a letter to the church in Corinth, in Greece...and it's Paul's response...he was their pastor and they needed advice, so they wrote him or sent word with someone else, only
Resiatance - July 1, 2018
This story comes at the beginning of Jesus' ministry. In the Gospel of Matthew we've heard the story of Jesus' birth, the visit of the magi, the holy family fleeing as refugees to Egypt, and then Jesus as an adult being baptized by his cousin John. And then after the baptism comes this story...Jesus spending 40 days in the desert for fasting and prayer, and then being tempted by the devil.
And one of the things I find most interesting about this passage is that in the first verse it
Stay In Love With God - June 10, 2018
Sometimes when we hear these types of passages, we feel like someone is finger wagging at us. Do this. Don't do that. It hardly feels inspiring. It feels condemning and sometimes condescending. Sometimes we read too much into these passages or hold one another hostage, and sometimes we're dismissive and think "that's not me" and we move on. But there's a richness and a depth here that shouldn't be ignored. Paul is writing to the new church in Colossus. And he's trying to help them figure out the ways of faith. His writings are letters....responding to issues and needs within the church. Here it seems people are confused about what living in Christ might
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