Renewal Church

Renewal Church

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Renewal Church episodes

  • The Message of the Cross

    Sunday, Feb 5, 2023

    Chris Bennett

    1 Corinthians 1:18–25


    The people of Corinth emphasized beautiful rhetoric. It awed and inspired them. But it was futile in bringing about a knowledge of God. When Paul arrived there, he proclaimed the irreducible power of the cross of Christ rather than fluff. The cross was not only brutal, but the most humiliating form of capital punishment in the ancient world. It was repulsive to both Jews and Greeks (Corinth is in Greece). But Paul insisted that the cross is the power of God — the means by which we are transformed and saved. The Corinthian believers had strayed from the cross with their selfish rivalries, their boasting, and their scandalous sinfulness. They had drifted from the glory and love of God revealed in the cross and, consequently, they lost sight of the priority of orienting their lives according to the cross. Paul wrote to call them back to the cross. May we also answer this call.

    43 min
  • God's Church

    Sunday, Jan 22, 2023

    Chris Bennett

    1 Corinthians 1:1-9


    1 Corinthians video overview:

    https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/1-corinthians/?utm_source=web_social_share&medium=shared_video


    Intro:

    Welcome to Corinth! In the ancient world, this cosmopolitan city connecting Europe and Asia was well known for its sexual promiscuity, wealth and greed, along with its religious diversity and idolatry. The Apostle Paul spent many months of his life here making disciples. But several years have passed and the church seems to have relapsed into many of its old pagan habits. Paul writes to set them straight. And he begins by reminding them about Jesus. In the first nine verses alone, he mentions Jesus nine times. To Paul, Jesus is the most irreducible truth in the universe. Everything hinges on Jesus Christ and the plan that God is slowly and irreversibly revealing through him and how Jesus seeks to live out that plan through us, his followers.


    “For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” - 1 Corinthians 2:2

    45 min

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