Redemption Community Church

Does this sound familiar: “"If you're in a dispute with another party and you can't seem to work things out, don't take the law into your own hands; you take 'em to court," This was the tagline stated by the host of the courtroom reality show in the 80-90’s called the People’s Court. Some of you will…

Introduction Ermine (stoat) cold climate weasel that protects the purity of its coat. Review: The Need: (1-5) The Picture: (6-8) Purpose: The Church benefits from Paul’s words of application as we consider how to strive for holiness through Church Discipline. 1. The Recipients of Church Discipline Paul…

Intro: Where we have been: 1 Corinthians chapter 1-4 dealing with division in church due to arrogance and pride over man’s wisdom and knowledge Last two weeks: Paul defines gospel ministry for himself and all believers in the church Paul demonstrates the example of gospel ministry in admonishing the…

Introduction : Years ago, I took a class in seminary entitled, Biblical Counseling with Dr Tim Seal. I took it because during my ministry as a Student Pastor at Ellendale Baptist, I felt ill-equipped with the biblical counseling cases that I faced among teens and their parents. I heard from fellow student…

Intro: Humanism Manifesto: The chief end of man is man! Secular Humanist Popular secular humanists: Karl Marx, John Dewey, BF Skinner Humanist Manifesto written in 1933 summarizes the tenets of belief of humanist. Notice with me how dominant these principles are in our culture. Man is self-existing (deny…

Intro: -God’s speaks to humanity in his reveled word and he speaks in ways that the human mind can understand his words with clarity. Therefore throughout the scripture, The HS is using word pictures and analogies from our earthly realm to teach us. He does this to communicate heavenly truth to earthly…

1. Unity in the Church is from the Spirit (vv.1-4) A. Cutting away the bad spots Paul introduces for us the reality of the flesh and Spirit in the life of a believer. He is talking to the church, those whom “have been called into the fellowship of his Son (1:9). Paul is not calling into question their…

Part 1 Look at the reception of the preaching of God’s word- those who are saved by God’s grace and those who reject the message of the gospel. Part 2 The question had to be answered why? Why do people receive and reject this message of Christ’s good news? The answer is an invisible work of God through…