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Good morning, If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 7. We have been journeying through 1 Corinthians since August, with a short break for Advent, and now we are picking back up with 1 Corinthians chapter 7. Chapter 7 marks a significant transition…

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…

The Corinthians wrote questions to Paul. This letter, in part, is his answer to them. Their Question: 1 Corinthians 7:1 “1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”” is this in the context of persecution, over-compensation to environment…

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…

The Corinthians wrote questions to Paul. This letter, in part, is his answer to them. Their Question: 1 Corinthians 7:1 “1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”” is this in the context of persecution, over-compensation to environment…

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,…

Holy Ambition Hannah’s home life was sometimes hard, as she had to contend with a second wife in the marriage. 2 He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. This second wife tended to make fun of Hannah…

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)?

You most likely read or skim read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, The Scarlett Letter in high school literature class. Hawthorne’s story of Hester Prynne is a tale of a married woman sent ahead to America as her husband finished up affairs. Thought to be dead after his delayed arrival to their new…

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…

Two weeks ago, we began looking at Marriage Matters addressed in 1 Corinthians 7 . In the first section of this chapter we saw how a major part of the marriage relationship is built upon considering the other person. All-to-often in our culture, we are looking at love as something we get. Love is how…

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 Chapter 6 ends the first section of the book of 1 Corinthians. The problem in the Corinthian church was a lack of unity. In order to address this problem Paul spends the first 6 chapters detailing what they need to believe (doctrine) and how they need to behave (practice). He has laid the…

Our Scripture lesson this morning is taken from 1 Corinthians 7:1-9 . Before I read this text, I would like to say a few words of introduction. First, I want you to realize that we are entering into a completely new section of 1 Corinthians, from this point forward, Paul will be addressing questions…

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…

Fasting 101 my experience so far. My experience with fasting has been life changing. I wasn’t able to do a complete fast because my job is very physical and i am out in the heat right now a lot delivering the mail. I as doing a sun up sun down fast with just water and vegetable juice at first which means…

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…

Principles of Marriage 1 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…

4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. 32 But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord. 33 But he who is married cares about the things of the world—how he may please…

Introduction In our culture, we often define people by their professions, possessions, and associations. We can easily make assumptions of others based on a persons ethnicity, socio-economic standing, age, and marital status. These assumptions have brought about deep wounds of emotional pain, exclusion,…