This week’s sermon by Jeremy Wales from the Ordination Service for Sam

This week’s sermon by Stuart Hoadley for our 15th Anniversary Service.

This week’s sermon by Philip McGann.

This week’s sermon by Sam McGeown.

On the surface, this passage is about the culturally-distant question of whether to eat meat offered to idols. But under the surface, it’s a passage that raises the question of how we use our freedom in Christ to love those around us, in all the areas of life where our words or actions could damage our brother or sister’s conscience.

This week’s sermon.

In this final talk in our Pure Sex series, Jeremy helps us to think about how God’s word helps us to catch a vision for following Jesus in our marriage or singleness, in all of the challenges and gifts in each.

As we come to chapter 7 of 1 Corinthians, Paul starts to address some of the most challenging areas of life, including marriage and singleness. In this talk, Jeremy helps us to see the foundation that Paul lays for how we can make decisions in these areas of life: the priority of honouring Christ with our lives, and how that should shape our decision-making in every area of life.

In this talk, Sam helps us through this confronting passage, to see that what we do with our bodies really matters, to us and to God. And yet, we were bought at a price, at the cost of Christ’s body, to restore us and make us pure, so there’s always hope.

As we start to think about God’s vision for the purity of sex, we come to another complicated struggle in the Corinthian church: a man sleeping with his father’s wife. Into this situation, Paul reminds the church of the power of making right judgements—with clarity, without hypocrisy—and how important this is for maintaining health in the church.