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March 29 Love Builds Up
Just like some of the Christians in Corinth, we are those who fight for our personal rights and freedoms. Paul here in 1 Corinthians 8 teaches that for those who love God, Gospel love trumps and must shape the exercise of our rights freedoms.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13

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41 min
March 22 Concerning Divorce and Remarriage
Like the Corinthians, we are a MESSY CHURCH filled with messy people who are living messy lives. We, like them, need clear Biblical instruction on the messy issues around marriage and divorce. 1 Corinthians 7 provides a guide!

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:10-16, 39-40

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36 min
March 15 Value of the Lost
In Luke 15, Jesus tells stories to teach hard-hearted religious people how much God values lost people. Jesus' teaching here challenges each of us to ask, "How much do I value the lost?"

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: Luke 15:1-3

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42 min
March 08 The Opportunity of Singleness
Why does Paul celebrate singleness? Why does he call it a gift when many see it as a curse? Paul elevates the singles in the church by pulling back our focus to see that devotion to God matters more than any relationship status.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:25-38

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41 min
March 01 God's Good Gift of Marriage
After warning about the dangers of sexual immorality in chapter 6, Paul now highlights several principles for marriage in the first part of chapter 7.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 7:1-10

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42 min
February 22 Living and Loving in the Mess
Today, we step back from the tough details of 1 Corinthians 5 & 6 to provide some pastoral reflections, clarification, encouragement, and application from these chapters for our church family living and loving in the mess.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 5:7-13, 6:11

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40 min
February 15 You Are Not Your Own
In 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, Paul returns to the delicate and dangers area of sexual immorality and, again, grounds his teaching in the Gospel, all that God has done for us in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus!

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

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40 min
February 08 Why Not Rather Be Wronged?
The Christians in the Corinthian church are suing one another in civil courts! Its another area where they aren't living or applying the Gospel together.Here we see how Paul challenges them with the Gospel to live differently.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

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40 min
February 01 The Seriousness of Sexual Immorality in the Church
1 Corinthians 5 highlights both the seriousness of sexual immorality in our own lives and seriousness of sexual immorality in the church. This passage provides guidelines for how a church is to deal with ongoing, habitual, unconfessed, public sin.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 5

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40 min
January 25 The Seriousness of Sexual Immorality in Our Lives
In 1 Corinthians 5, Paul begins to confront and correct some MESSY sexual sin in the Corinthian church. As we dive into this vulnerable subject, the place to start is to explain what "sexual immorality" is and why it's so serious in the sight of God.

📖 SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Corinthians 5

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43 min