by ray | Nov 8, 2011 | 1 Cor, Holy Spirit, NT, Sermons, Topical Studies
4) How are we blind today? That’s been my prayer this week–Lord, show me my blindness, show us our corporate blindness, show Christians in America our collective blind spots. We all have blind spots. You have them. I have them. Every ethnicity has its blind...
by ray | Nov 8, 2011 | 1 Cor, Holy Spirit, NT, Sermons, Topical Studies
3) For the Corinthians, what was the result of their blindness? Now we get into the specifics of Apostle Paul’s rebuke to this church. 1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has...
by ray | Jul 12, 2011 | Devotionals, Holy Spirit, Topical Studies
“That I may know Him.” Philippians 3:10 The initiative of the saint is not towards self-realization, but towards knowing Jesus Christ. The spiritual saint never believes circumstances to be haphazard, or thinks of his life as secular and sacred; he sees...
by ray | Jul 12, 2011 | 1 Cor, NT, Sermons, Thanksgiving, Topical Studies
Our temptation is to be excessively impatient with others and to demand instant growth and change. For those in leadership at any level, you know what I am talking about. After a year, I may have read a dozen Christian books and listened to hundreds of sermons and...
by ray | Jul 12, 2011 | 1 Cor, NT, Sermons, Thanksgiving, Topical Studies
1 Cor 1:1-3 – 1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, 2 To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of...
by ray | Jul 12, 2011 | 1 Cor, NT, Sermons, Thanksgiving, Topical Studies
1 Cor 1:1-9 I don’t know about you, but I’m certainly very excited that Romans is safely behind us and now we are moving ahead into 1 Corinthians. But I don’t think I’ll be hitting the cruise control button anytime soon. Romans and Corinthians are both hard books to...
