(Recorded 05/09/2021)

In this Chapter Paul compares a healthy church to a body with all its parts healthy and functioning. Yet in many parts of the culture, Consumerism has created something that looks more like Frankenstein's monster: technically "one body with many parts" but horrible. In this part of the letter, Paul names four dangers of Consumer Christianity in Corinth: idolatry, pride, greed, and laziness, and shows that the answer to all of it is a proper, functioning, Body of Christ.

(Recorded 05/02/2021)

This section of the letter, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes what we mean in this series by “Table Manners”. What happens when we celebrate the Lord’s Table? And consequently, which people should and shouldn’t participate? In this message we learned why Communion is a Reunion, a Rebuke, a Remembrance, and a Reorientation for God's people, and we applied that to the question of why children should (or shouldn't) be allowed to participate.

(Recorded 04/25/2021)

Gender inequality remains an issue in the Church, though it’s hardly just an “issue”. Texts like this one have been used to suppress women and divide churches. The Apostle's saying 'no' to SOMEthing, but what? In this message we propose what might be a helpful way forward in the gender debates that relies less on labels, stereotypes, and tribal loyalties: neither Complementarianism nor Egalitarianism, but Trinitarianism.

(Recorded 04/18/2021)

The Church is constantly tempted to measure, celebrate, and pursue the wrong things. The temptations of power, pleasure, and pride are almost more than we can bear, and the damage to the Church's witness in many places and times has been devastating. In this message we don't point fingers, we share hope and promises, because through the Church, God is making all things new.

(Recorded April 11, 2021)

For those who were taught either by movies or their Sunday school that eternal life will be spent as spirits playing harps in the clouds, this text has mind-blowing news: we were made embodied beings, and we will be RE-MADE embodied. In this message, Elder Jordan Moss walks through 1Corinthians 15 and the example of Jesus' own resurrection to explain what we will be and do in these new bodies. 

(recorded Easter Sunday, 04/04/2021)

Like Star Wars, the Bible is full of easter eggs. The resurrection of Jesus might be the greatest one of all: it points back to God's promises, and forward to God's plan to someday be all in all. When God is everything, our enemies won't be. This was a candid, personal message that translated the resurrection into real hope that someday our enemies will be crushed, everything will be new, and God will be all in all. 

(Recorded 03/28/2021)

What’s your stance on marijuana, alcohol, profanity, or other things the Bible neither forbids nor endorses? No matter what your parents or pastor thinks, YOU need good reason for your Yes or No. Are there ANY circumstances in which these are okay? Is there any excuse for NOT using, since we're 'free in Christ'? Here, Paul offers us a helpful (and a little surprising) set of questions to guide our decisions.

(Recorded 03/21/2021)

In some traditions, views on divorce has created church outcasts. Yet as Paul applies the Old Testament's divorce teaching to the situation in Corinth, it turns out there are circumstances in which staying in a bad marriage is actually worse than leaving. What breaks a marriage? When can a Christian divorce and remarry? And how can we be a church of, and for, those healing from the pain of a broken marriage?

(recorded 03/14/2021)

It turns out that there are several reasons why an unmarried believer isn’t a second-class citizen. It may be that single people might have the advantage over married ones. But that doesn’t make it easy. What else have we gotten wrong about singleness? What else do single Christians wish that married Christians understood?

(Message preached by Kevin Foth, March 7, 2021)

Why would the married couples in Corinth need an Apostle to tell them to have sex? Even though marriage is a gift from God, its importance is easily distorted. How would we know if we were making too much of marriage, or, not enough?