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1 Peter 3 Good morning church! Baby Dedication- Axel Wallace Choiniere Eli and Tori Pray and pray for service 1 Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, 2 when they observe your chaste…

Introduction: Good morning, If you have your Bible let me invite you to open with me to 1 Corinthians chapter 7. I want to begin with the theological foundation for this week’s passage. Here it is. God loves you. He desires an active and forever relationship with you. He has proved his love for you through…

Luke 20:19-21:4 Outline & Discovery Full Manuscript By Calvin Dorsey Intro: Nick name was straight lace or straight edge. They saw the outside but they didn’t see my daily struggle I didn’t always do what is right In Genesis 18 , I believe verse 25, Abraham is having a conversation with God about the…

Luke 20:19-21:4 Outline & Discovery Full Manuscript By Calvin Dorsey Intro: Nick name was straight lace or straight edge. They saw the outside but they didn’t see my daily struggle I didn’t always do what is right In Genesis 18 , I believe verse 25, Abraham is having a conversation with God about the…

Today we conclude our Family Matters series. I have saved this topic for last not because it is the least significant, but because it is often overlooked. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 46.6% of American adults are unmarried. This includes all adults over the age of 18 who are either widowed/widower,…

I. The Genesis Model - Genesis 2:22-25 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 24 Therefore a man…

WWJD (What Would Jesus Do)?

Intro: These passages regarding marriage in 1 Corinthians are so personal to me. If you don’t know, my mom abandoned my dad when I was 8 months old. When I came to maturity as a young person, I looked beyond my own selfish hurt and mourned for my dad. I cannot imagine the hurt he felt, with a young son…

Intro: Review: I. The Command to Married Believers (vs. 10-11) A. Paul teaches how Marriage among Believers reflects Christ and the gospel In the end, the scope of the covenant of marriage is that God would be honored in his creation and his character would be reflected in those who love him. In the…

What forms our conduct? 16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. I am God’s temple. We, the church, are God’s temple. Unity as God’s temple. 1 This is…

Visions of Assurance Good afternoon. Chapter fourteen is a continuations of this lengthy interlude that we have been looking at for some time now. In chapter ten the seventh trumpet brought us right up to the time of the end. But before that time begins John is given visions of the lengthy struggle that…

1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and…

When Jesus told us to live in the world, but not become a part of it, how did he mean for us to relate to our family? And what about friends? Should we even have non-Christian friends? Can we both love God above all else and also be a light to the little part of the world we live in: our friends and family?

Today is the final message from 1 Corinthians 7 , in which Paul addresses Marriage Matters. In this chapter, Paul was answering some specific questions from the believers in Corinth concerning marriage and marriage relations. We have seen already that what is necessary for marriage relationships, and…

Introduction The content of the letter written to the Apostle Paul is not completely disclosed. His response to it indicates that there were questions about the relationship. Marriage, Divorce, Singleness and what to do when your spouse has died. All of these issues are important. The decision to marry…

Introduction I want to begin this morning by reading to you a description of marriage in Paul’s day. Beginning in Chapter 7 of 1 Corinthians, Paul is answering questions sent to him from the Corinthian church. 1 Corinthians: The MacArthur New Testament Commentary (Chapter 16: To Marry or Not to Marry…

Intro: We live in an hour in which the home is under attack. And, I realize that this is an unpleasant topic to preach about, but it is one which touches every life in this room in one fashion or another. My desire this morning in talking about the matter of divorce and remarriage is to be sensitive…

This morning we come to the section of 1 Corinthians in which Paul addresses the topic of divorce, however, divorce is not the main topic of this passage, rather it is the sacredness and beauty of marriage. This is why I have entitled my sermon using the words of Jesus, “What God Has Joined, Let Not…

ME: Picture of a funeral Our tendency to want to move on YOU: The story is is to shift our focus to Isaac and the next generations. They are about to become the main characters in the story of Genesis. That happens in life… it becomes about our kids... But today we are in a transitional period. And we…

Time to answer questions Paul was now making a shift from what he heard, to what he read. He in our passage this morning is going to address some questions asked in writing of him. Corinthians wrote to Paul inquiring on various topics Marriage (1Cor7:1-40) As we look at our passage over the next couple…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

Married 10 To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband 11 (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. 12 To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother…

3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” 4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave…

Content Warning One note before we get into the content of the sermon for this morning I want to give a slight content warning for parents. While I aim to be careful and appropriate - and never crass - when we get to the works of the flesh section in verse 19 - I will be defining what Paul means by sexual…