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Equipping the Saints to Live Together in Purity - 1 Corinthians

Pastor Warren Harvey preaches on 1 Corinthians 5:1-13. If you know you have cancer in your body, you would be quick to take drastic measures to treat it before it spreads, which may include cutting out tumors that are cancerous. Sin is like cancer in the body of Christ. God has graciously given us the remedy of repentance and faith in Christ who mercifully has taken our sin upon himself on the cross. But if we ignore, overlook or even tolerate sin it does not just harm the one who sins, but the entire body of Christ, and even the glory of Christ himself. That is why Paul's seemingly harsh response to sin being tolerated in the church at Corinth is reality a loving act of God's mercy to pursue healing and promote holiness for the overall well-being of his children and his church. Join us as we consider how church discipline equips us to live together in purity in the body of Christ.

Equipping the Saints to Testify by Example - 1 Corinthians

Pastor Warren Harvey preaches on 1 Corinthians 4:8-21. Little children often learn and grow up by imitating their parents. In particular the example set by fathers often has significant impact in the lives of children. As the apostle Paul admonishes the believers at Corinth for their prideful attitudes, he appeals to them as a spiritual father to his beloved children to imitate him not just in what he taught them to believe, but in how they live it out. To not just talk the talk of the gospel, but to walk the walk of sacrificial service and love in Christ. While doing so will not make you popular with the world, it will serve as a powerful testimony and conduit of the transforming grace and power of God in Christ Jesus. Join us as we continue in our series from 1 Corinthians.

Equipping the Saints to Testify in Truth - 1 Corinthians

Pastor Warren Harvey preaches on 1 Corinthians 3:18-4:7. Pride is a powerful deceiver, and we can easily deceive ourselves by placing undue significance, value and confidence in what we know (or don't know), what we have (or don't have), or what we do (or don't do). Such self-deception actually limits our understanding and experience of the wisdom, provision, and power of God for us in Christ. How do we avoid the self-deception of pride and experience the humbling and freeing truth of all that God is and has for us in Christ? Join us as we continue in our series in 1 Corinthians and are equipped to testify in truth.

Equipping the Saints with Careful Construction - 1 Corinthians

Pastor Warren Harvey preaches on 1 Corinthians 3:5-17. Firm foundations and careful construction in buildings usually go unnoticed until they are tested by some threat such as a hurricane, earthquake or fire. God's likens his people, the church, to a spiritual building, and Jesus and the apostles repeatedly stress the importance of a firm foundation and careful construction in our lives together. As living stones being built up together as a spiritual temple and dwelling place of God in Christ, Paul exhorts us in 1 Corinthians 3 to take care how we build, knowing that the day will come when the results of our labor will be tested. Join us as we continue in our series entitled Equipping the Saints and look at how we testify to Christ through careful construction.

Equipping the Saints to Testify by Spiritual Growth - 1 Corinthians

Pastor Warren Harvey preaches on 1 Corinthians 2:14-3:9 Just as our diet impacts the growth and development of our bodies, growth in the Christian life and in the body of Christ is the work of God's Spirit as we feed on the spiritual food of God's truth and benefits of Christ crucified. How is your spiritual diet? How can we encourage healthy spiritual growth and avoid spiritual malnutrition or stunted development in our own lives and in the body of Christ? How does God supply such growth and testify to his grace and glory through it? Join us as we consider these things in our series through 1 Corinthians.

Equipping the Saints to Testify in the Spirit’s Power - 1 Corinthians

Pastor Warren Harvey preaches on 1 Corinthians 2:1-13. How is the testimony of God in the gospel, which is foolishness in the eyes and minds of the world, communicated in a way that actually demonstrates its wisdom and power? How is it proclaimed and how is it received in such a way that it is understood and embraced as the truth of God? It is not through the power and eloquence of the messenger or the wisdom and comprehension of the hearer. It is only through the Spirit of God who imparts and implants that testimony in the minds and on hearts of those who believe, such that our faith rests not in the wisdom or ways of man, but in Christ crucified, the wisdom and power of God. Join us as we consider how we look for and listen to and learn from the Spirit of God, such that we grow together towards maturity in Christ.

Equipping the Saints in Humility - 1 Corinthians

Pastor Kyle O'Donnell preaches on 1 Corinthians 1: 26-31. Let's take a good, honest look at ourselves, at the saints, and what God is doing. We need to. Because we can't be equipped for the Kingdom without being humbled, and we can't be humble without being honest. God chooses the have-nots of the world, through the made-nothing Christ, who invites the haves to come with Him. If we join Him, we'll be humiliated, but exalted; if not, we'll be shamed. So, be honest: will you join in with the crucified Christ? Will you embrace His cruciform community? Will you trust Him to bring new life from worldly death? Let's pray we do.

Equipping the Saints to Testify in Weakness - 1 Corinthians

Pastor Warren Harvey preaches on 1 Corinthians 1:18-25. Foolish, moronic, weak. These are labels that we typically try to avoid in terms of who we are or what we believe. But that is how the apostle Paul describes the focal point of our faith and the grounds of our hope in the gospel. In embracing the cross of Christ and preaching Christ crucified, we embrace a foolishness and a weakness that turns human wisdom and power on its head, and proclaims the wisdom and power of God for salvation. Join us Sunday as we explore the wisdom and power of God in the foolishness of the cross.

Equipping the Saints to Testify in Unity - 1 Corinthians

Pastor Warren Harvey preaches on 1 Corinthians 1:10-17. One thing we can all agree on as followers of Christ is that unity in the body of Christ is important. One of Jesus' last prayers on earth was for all believers to be one, as a testimony to his being sent by God. Thus the Bible is replete with calls and commands for unity and harmony in the church. Yet, even those things that should bind us together, can easily become sources of disagreement and division, such that our walk and witness for Christ are harmed. Why is it so hard for Christian to be of one mind and heart? What is the unity which we should expect and strive for? How does that unity impact our lives and our testimony for Christ? Join us as we see how Paul begins to address the issue of division in the church at Corinth and answer some of these important questions for us today.

Equipping the Saints to Testify - 1 Corinthians

Pastor Warren Harvey teaches on 1 Corinthians 1:1-9. The letter of 1st Corinthians is written to a church suffering some significant problems. Some were the growing pains of a young body of believers seeking to grow in grace. Other were self-inflicted injuries that were hampering the health and threatening the testimony of the body of Christ. Paul writes to them with both pointed diagnosis of the issues as well as prescribed gospel remedies. But before he does, he reminds them of who they are and whose they are as saints called and united together by God in Christ Jesus. To be equipped to grow in and testify to Christ, we must first understand and embrace the corporate nature of our calling as saints together in the body of Christ.