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Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 6:1-13. Paul has been defending his apostleship and is drawing attention to the unique connection between apostle and the authority of the apostle as he proclaims the gospel. It’s the nature of mankind that necessitates continuous authoritative preaching and ministry. We require a continual proclamation of...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 5:11-21. Our attention may be drawn to three primary themes in this passage. First is the fear of the Lord; the centerpiece of what compels Paul to confidently go forward in Christ. The fear of God must have more to do with God’s people than simply that He doesn’t care what we do and loves us no matter wha...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 5:1-11. Heaven is a place of holiness, happiness, and humility. If we would be ready for heaven, these are the things the apostle Paul would encourage us to recognize. Light, momentary afflictions are integrated into our lives by God’s design for spiritual growth in ourselves and for encouraging others. Th...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 4:7-15. In verses 7-15, we see the challenge of being depleted as the Corinthians give their lives to Christ and the challenges that occur in a normal gospel ministry. In gospel ministry, the minister is in the background as the servant, proclaiming Jesus Christ. The point isn’t simply that humanity is dim...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 4:1-6. Paul is regaling on the goodness of the Lord Jesus Christ. He affirms his weakness and his being in the shadow of the Lord Jesus. It is the weakness of men in which the glory of God is most profoundly shown. Our outer shells are wasting away but the gospel of Christ grows our inner being in grace. T...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 3:1-18. The Lord Jesus Christ is more glorious and brighter than the sun - the beatific vision. Something both beautiful and breathtaking, drawing a permanent gaze from us as something transformative in our lives. One particularly important thing we can draw from this passage is the concept of a living min...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 2:5-17. This passage draws our attention to the biblical norm of forgiveness and recovery. Being in a warm, loving congregation that reflects the love of Christ is one of the most important aspects of our relationship to the Lord Jesus. Healthy church life involves a normal process of confession, repentanc...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 1:12-2:4. This letter is about Paul’s unashamed commitment to the gospel as revealed in scripture. The Corinthian church was not a mature church. They were acting like they didn’t receive the gospel but germinated it on their own. They exalted strength and were attracted to flashy and contemporary ideas. P...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 1:1-11. One of the keywords in the first chapter of 2 Corinthians is “comfort”. But this isn’t comfort as we typically think but rather more of a sense of “encouragement”. Part of the issue in 2 Corinthians is the inclination to “clip-short” the promises of God. Paul is drawing their attention to what it i...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner begins a new preaching series on 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18. Paul describes heaven as the eternal weight of glory. The Corinthians underestimated the unseen, spiritual, and eternal, preferring the seen, physical, and temporal, and did not embrace the renewal of the inner man. The renewing of our inner selves begins at redemption but that is just a...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner preaches on Psalm 67. Psalm 67 draws our attention to the fullness of God’s kingdom. If there is to be a kingdom of priests with access to a holy God, there must be a gospel that comes and sweeps into all the nations. We can lose sight of God’s grand and glorious purposes in all He does in our lives. Psalm 67 is a Westminister Catechism question 1 psalm. It...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner preaches on stewarding singleness in the church. 1 Corinthians 7:6-40. A situation that is true of all of us on occasion and will ultimately be true of all of us permanently, is that of being single. Marriage to a human being is always temporary. Our permanent state is marriage to Christ. When the scriptures speak of being single, it’s important to think of...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner concludes the series on the Gospel of John. John 21:15-19. In this gospel, Jesus asks a series of questions, the last being to Peter: “Do you love me?”. Jesus and the apostles never proposed that people question whether or not God loves them. The clear message of the Bible regarding God’s love is summarized with finality in John 3:16. We are often concerned...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 20:8-10. John 20 draws our attention to understanding the resurrection. One reason it was so difficult for the Israelites to understand the resurrection was God’s people never saw a slain animal rise from the dead. The women that were at the cross of Jesus and ran to the tomb, were satisfied with the crucifixi...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 19:30. One thing that is profoundly important as we consider the cross, is the glory of God. The cross reveals to us how a heart is changed. The answers to all our questions on how a heart is changed, how one is justified, and how one is sanctified have directly to do with the glory of the cross of Christ. Our...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 18:33-38. What we see in chapter 18 is the humiliation of the King of Kings. Every part of what occurs is by His design. Pilate, the regional governor, has the confidence to call the King of Kings to speak with Him. The Lord Jesus submits, declaring He is a King but His kingdom is not of this world. Jesus so d...

Please join us as guest Pastor Mark Chanski, Coordinator of RBNet, preaches from 2 Samuel. 2 Samuel 23:13-17. The deep loyalty of King David’s devoted subjects is supremely displayed in various exploits of David’s mighty men who exhibited their allegiance to him with their military feats. We can exposit and apply these verses to discover if we, ourselves, are mighty men of our king, the Lord Jesus...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 17:20-26. A primary theme we see in the last section of the high priestly prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ is the idea of unity, of which Psalm 133 paints a beautiful picture. The unity Jesus Christ prays for is not a negotiated unity, but an other-worldly, unnatural, unexpected unity; something associated with...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 17:6-19. In this passage we see that the Lord Jesus has three priorities. The first priority is simply this idea that those to whom Christ spoke and offered redemption would know that the source of everything He has said, every promise He has made, every admonition, have as their source the Father in heaven. S...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 17:1-5. The entirety of John 17 is a prayer that Jesus is praying in the disciples’ hearing. What is eternal life? To know God and to know His Son. Belief and knowing do not mean the same thing. The salvation of the elect is the fruit of the trinitarian relationship. There is a difference between bearing fruit...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 16:16-33. In verse 16, in the last hours, we see the Lord Jesus Christ speaks of “in a little while”, a reference to the cross, the tomb, and the resurrection. We see the Lord Jesus encouraging His disciples. He has overcome and is bringing peace, in the context of a raging battle. This discourse reminds us th...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 16:1-15. In John 16, we see an introduction to a Christian spiritual life. In particular, we see highlighted the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is front and center to the true spiritual life of those who are redeemed. The spiritual aspects of our lives are sometimes seen as less valuable and less consequential t...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 15:18-16:4. In chapters 14-17, what we have are the most profound words of Christ as He passes on to the spiritual army the orders and expectations for the continuation of the Holy war. In John 15 and 16 the most notable illustration is that of warfare. The on-the-ground general, Lord Jesus Christ, is telling...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 15:1-7. The question at hand is simply what does it mean to abide in Christ? Often when we think of abiding, there is an inclination to draw attention to the union with Christ. But what we see in the term “abiding” in this chapter, particularly in verse 4, is that it is a verb, a directive to those already in...

Please join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner continues the series on the Gospel of John. John 15:1-17. Doing the works of Christ is the purpose of all believers (John 14:12). God honoring productivity is not a New Testament idea. The first command God gave Adam and Eve, be fruitful and multiply, sounded a lot like John 15. God’s intention for creation was not only to have children but that they involve...