Theme: Renewed Obedience Service Folder📖🔍 Jeremiah 7:1-11 ▪ I Corinthians 12:1-11 ▪ ✞ Luke 19:41-18 In today’s Gospel (Luke 19: 41-18) Jesus weeps over Jerusalem and its Temple because of its coming destruction. Destruction would come, because the city refused to see that God visited them in the Person of Jesus. Jesus then cleansed the Temple of merchandising as a type of…
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Sermons on 1 Corinthians
Theme: The Steward’s Shrewdness Sanctified Service Folder📖🔍 I Chronicles 29:10-13 ▪ I Corinthians 10:6-13 ▪ ✞ Luke 16:1-9 “The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness” (Luke 16:1–9). The steward’s shrewdness is praiseworthy for two reasons. First, he knew the master would be merciful. He trusted that the master would honor the debts he forgave in the master’s name. In the…
Service Folder Easter is the Christian Church’s High Feast. Sunday’s lessons all highlight the reason for it – the resurrection of Jesus from the dead – Joshua 3:1, 9-17: As the Ark led the children of Israel through the Jordan River on dry land, the Risen Jesus leads us through death to the resurrection of the dead and eternal life. –…
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Service Folder So much of what we do in life is related to merit. An employee merits a paycheck, a student merits a grade, an Olympic Athlete strives to merit a gold medal. It’s not surprising that our fallen nature likewise thinks we merit, at least in part, God’s grace. Sunday’s theme is that we are saved not by any merit on…
Service Folder Forerunners of Christ The coming of the Promised Savior, Jesus, was foretold throughout the Old Testament. Noah was among those. Immediately after the flood he built an altar to the Lord and sacrificed a burnt offering pointing to Jesus’ sacrificial offering on the altar of the cross. Others foretold Jesus coming – among them, Moses, David, and Isaiah. Finally, John…
Service Folder In today’s gospel (Luke 16:1-9) a rich man commends an unjust steward for acting shrewdly. Even though the steward was given notice that his role as steward was terminated due to his unfaithful stewardship, he knew how to use earthly goods to plan for his future. Jesus makes the application that the baptized know their true treasures – paid for…