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Genesis 12:1-12:9 | Abraham stepped out in faith, left comfort and safety, and put his trust in God. And that's precisely the kind of faith that God continues to use to change and bless the world.

Genesis 12:1-12:9 | Abraham stepped out in faith, left comfort and safety, and put his trust in God. And that's precisely the kind of faith that God continues to use to change and bless the world.

Jeremiah 29:1-29:14 | How do we live faithfully as Christians and raise children in today's shifting cultural waves? The prophet Jeremiah's letter to the Exiles in Babylon gives our homes and churches hope, encouragement and wisdom to navigate our chaotic culture.

Psalms 112:1-112:10 | How we order the affairs of our life speaks to what we fear or do not fear. How we raise our kids, whether we let them walk to school by themselves, how we drive, where we hike, the activities we participate in can all indicate where our confidence lies. This is also true of our money. How we use, or misuse, our cash can indicate what, or who, we fear.

2 Corinthians 9:6-9:15 | Feel like participating in an awkward conversation? Just ask someone about their giving? What to take it to the next level? Tell them how they should approach their giving. Even though these are areas we typically do not tread into, Paul has no difficulty outlining to the Corinthian church how they ought to think about their money and how they should be giving it away. Alt...

2 Corinthians 8:1-8:15 | The grace we encounter in Jesus transforms our lives and approach to money. The gospel makes us generous.

1 Corinthians 15:1-15:58 | We conclude our series in 1 Corinthians with the final concern the Apostle Paul addresses with them: that some in the church were denying the resurrection of the dead. Chapter 15 is one extended argument for the resurrection: Jesus rose in the past, those who believe will rise in the future, we will inherit supernatural bodies, and our belief in the resurrection will aff...

1 Corinthians 14:26-14:40 | As Paul has been working through what spiritual gifts are and their purpose, he concludes this section with instructions on how they are to be used in the church. The church was supposed to have order, so that people could all learn and be encouraged, but also so that the character of God could be seen. Yet, none of this was ever to be done outside of the command to lov...

1 Corinthians 14:1-14:19 | Tongues and prophecy tend to force people into extreme positions due to bad experiences or ignorance on the subject all together. There is an inherent trepidation in misunderstanding complex topics and valid skepticism in the misapplication of miraculous gifting. Culturally, we are prone to materialism and so the supernatural can be treated as irrelevant and, ultimately...

1 Corinthians 13:1-13:13 | Love is foundational for the use of our gifts in the church. Without love, spiritual gifts are meaningless, and while the gifts are temporary, love is eternal.

1 Timothy 1:15-1:17 | God saved me. And if He can do that in my life, He can do it in yours! Christmas proves to us that Jesus went to great lengths so that you could come to Him. He came from heaven 2000 years ago so you could come to Him today.

Galatians 4:4-4:7 | The message of the Christmas story can be drown out by competing traditions. The current cultural Santa story connects good actions with good results; be good get gifts. The biblical story tells a different narrative; we are unable to accomplish the good we need to and need a Savior to step in and accomplish what we cannot.

Isaiah 8:22-9:7 | When Mary held her baby boy that first Christmas, she was holding the One who came to heal our broken world, break oppression and bring peace. She held the One who came to pierce the darkness with life-saving light and to turn gloom and despair into unending joy.

1 Corinthians 12:12-12:27 | Paul's use of the image of the church as the body of Christ has a number of implications that help us understand spiritual gifts rightly and compel us towards utilizing them for the building up of the church.

1 Corinthians 12:1-12:11 | Any talk about spiritual gifts elicits significant conversation in Christian circles. The majority of time will be spent considering the manifestation of the spectacular gifts. Our time will be spent ridiculing or recounting tales of tongues, healing, prophecy that impacted our current view of spiritual gifts in the 21st century. Yet, if we carefully read our passage we...

1 Corinthians 11:17-11:34 | How we eat says a lot about who we are and the company we keep. Just as there are certain cultural etiquette expectations when dining out, so too God says that there is a ?"right way" and a "wrong way" to come to His table. This message takes a closer look at the expectations that Scripture lays out for participating in The Lord's Supper, also known as communion ... bec...

1 Corinthians 11:2-11:16 | A passage of Scripture about head coverings ? what could that possibly mean for us today? The temptation is either to interpret it as meaning nothing for us today or to interpret it as meaning precisely the same thing now as it did then. More thoughtfully, it calls us to set aside the ancient cultural form head coverings conveyed at the time while honouring the timeless...

1 Corinthians 8:1-8:13 | Worship is a key aspect to faith. This should be obvious. What also is usually obvious is who that worship is directed at. Unfortunately, when a Christian exercises their rights in freedom, they can sometimes unknowingly point someone in a direction other than God. In other words, sometimes exercising a right can be wrong.

1 Corinthians 7:32-7:40 | The church has often had a poor (if not wrong) view of singleness ? to the detriment of the singles in our midst. This passage of Scripture serves as a corrective to help us not make too much of marriage and too little of singleness.

1 Corinthians 7:17-7:24 | Rather than changing your circumstances in search of identity and satisfaction, find your identity and satisfaction in Jesus and live for Him in the midst the circumstances He has already placed you in.

1 Corinthians 7:10-7:16 | Divorce is a difficult reality in our world today. We would like to think of it as a problem in the wider culture, but the reality remains its prevalence is equal in the church. Since the biblical witness is incredibly consistent and clear on how the church ought to understand divorce, the issue of maintaining healthy relationships must fall to a different problem, namely...

1 Corinthians 7:1-7:5 | Sexual temptation surrounds us. The Apostle Paul gets highly practical by calling husbands and wives to self-giving service of one another, to foster and maintain an intimate, frequent sex life as a safeguard against sexual temptation.

1 Corinthians 6:1-6:8 | Civil lawsuits were prevalent in 1st century Corinth (something we wouldn't know anything about!) and unfortunately that was the case even among some of it's church members. They were taking each other to court. The Apostle Paul urges the church to arbitrate it's disputes among them in a wise and God-honouring way, but even more than that, accept personal monetary setbacks...

1 Corinthians 5:1-5:13 | How does a large community love one another in situations where someone has done something terrible? How can they remain united? Can asking someone to leave be a loving option? Although writing to a church in the 1st century, Paul gets at deep truths that can help a church in the 21st century maintain unity through accountability.

1 Corinthians 1:10-1:17 | A divided church makes the gospel look untrue but a church unified in Jesus is a living display of the redeeming, reconciling, and restoring power of the cross.