Date: 11/03/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The More Excellent Way
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Description: Christians are defined by love, not by what they possess or how they perform. Christians are bound by love, because only love like God’s can keep sinful, selfish people together. And Christians are destined for love, for the endless world of love that we taste in part when we love each other well.
Date: 10/27/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Gifted In Community
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:1-31
Description: For the good of the church, God’s Spirit gives each believer gifts that are unique and indispensable. We’re all gifted. But we’re not self-sufficient. As members of one body, we each need others and others need each of us.
Date: 10/20/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Do This Until He Comes
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Description: Confronting self-centered divisiveness at Corinth, Paul helps us understand what we do in the Lord’s Supper and what the Lord’s Supper does in us.
Date: 10/13/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Headship, Headcoverings, And Hope In God
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
Description: What do we do when the message and cultural context of the Bible seem far removed from our values and assumptions?
Date: 10/06/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What We're Made For
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1
Description: What does it look like to live our lives “to the glory of God”? We were made to glorify God by loving his gifts for God’s sake, and by loving each other in God’s strength.
Date: 09/29/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Careful What You Crave
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:1-22
Description: Paul points to the example of Israel to show that receiving great blessing from God doesn’t mean you won’t crave something more and fall into idolatry. Because comfort in Christian trappings isn’t the same as faith in Christ, be careful what you crave.
Date: 09/22/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Free To Serve
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:1-27
Description: Christian freedom is not finally about what’s permissible for us but what’s beneficial for others. Jesus frees us from bondage to our own interests, and he frees us for binding ourselves to each other.
Date: 09/15/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Known By Love
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 8:1-13
Description: As Christians, we’re defined not by what we know but by who knows us—our loving God—and what we’re known for—our love for each other.
Date: 09/08/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Singleness, Marriage, And The Christian Hope
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 7:25-40
Description: All of us have a idea of what we hope to get out of our lives before we die. And all of us have a future beyond the grave promised to us by God if we trust in Jesus. The question is this: To which unrealized future does your heart belong?
Date: 09/01/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: There Remain with God
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 7:1-40
Description: How can we be free from restlessness and discontent? Paul helps us connect with God’s acceptance of us, his sovereignty over us, and his future for us.
Date: 08/25/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Jesus Christ And Your Sex Life
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Description: Why do Christians think sex outside of marriage is such a bad thing? Given what Paul says here, the answer to that question has much to do with the sacredness of the body, the power of sex, and the purpose of sex within marriage.
Date: 08/18/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Conflict And The Kingdom
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:1-11
Description: How we handle conflict shows what we love and where we belong. When our hearts are locked on the things of this world, we’re driven to protect what we have and compete for even more. When we realize God has not given us what we deserve, we’re free to lay aside our rights and love with forgiveness.
Date: 08/11/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Love, Judgment, And The Healthy Church
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 5:1-13
Description: Could it ever be a good thing to remove someone from the church because of their sin? Paul’s stern warning explains why we must confront sin if we truly love each other, if we truly love the church body, and if we truly love God and his glory.
Date: 08/04/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Gospel Humility: Be Like Paul
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 4:1-21
Description: Paul uses his own life to call his friends to a humility rooted in the promises of the gospel. When we embrace God’s approval of us through Jesus, our security isn’t tied to what others think of us or what we think of ourselves. And when we taste the sweetness of what’s ours in Jesus, we’re set free from the restless pursuit of what we think we need or deserve.
Date: 07/21/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: You Are God's
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:1-17
Description: The church in Corinth was falling apart because its members were insecure and self-obsessed; or, in Paul’s words, they were behaving like infants, in a merely human way. The unflinching challenge of this text confronts all of us with two crucial questions: Who are you? And what are you doing with your life?
Date: 07/07/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Natural or Spiritual?
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:6-16
Description: Still pushing back against self-centered divisiveness in the church, Paul insists there’s only one distinction that really matters: those who love the cross of Jesus and those who reject it. And it’s only by God’s Spirit that any of us come to understand and to love that cross, to see the wisdom of God.
Date: 06/30/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Gospel-Centered Minimalism
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5
Description: The aim of Paul’s ministry was to see deeper faith in the power of God apart from any substitute. If we share his goal, that means our message must focus always and only on Jesus and his cross. And it means our methods must clarify the power of the cross, not distract from it.
Date: 06/23/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Foolishness And Glory Of God
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31
Description: Paul calls the message of the cross foolishness, and there’s no question that’s how it’s always seemed to the powers that be. But what did Paul mean by this description? And why would God choose this foolishness?
Date: 06/16/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Be United
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:10-17
Description: In this passage Paul confronts one of the major problems in the church at Corinth and in so many churches since then: the people were divided against each other. Paul points us to where division comes from, why it’s so dangerous, and how the cross helps us overcome it.
Date: 06/09/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Introducing 1 Corinthians: The Cross-Centered Community
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9
Description: Paul writes this letter to a dysfunctional church plant to clarify what defines a healthy church community: holiness, grace, and love.
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