The Resurrection For All Your Life: Sermon Recap

1st Corinthians 15

Big Idea: If Jesus really rose from the dead, then that changes everything.

From "The Body: We Are Better Together. A series from 1st Corinthians"


SERMON AUDIO

 Here are some highlights from the message.

•  Christianity puts itself out there to be tested. It's not a squishy, ethereal jellyfish religion without a spine. 
• Jesus is alive—skin on, walking around, bread breaking, fish eating alive. 
• The resurrection of Jesus is a sign and guarantee of the resurrection to come. 
• Our sin isn't looming but forgiven in the risen Christ. 
• When you believe in Jesus, He gets to call the shots. 
• herefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58 
• If the resurrection is true, we can't just piddle our lives away. 

Book recommendation:

 Cold-Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace

This Changes Everything - Matt Papa

Hosea's Wife - Brooke Fraser

The Death of Death: Sermon Recap

1st Corinthians 15

Big Idea: Jesus is coming back to finish what he started. That day should change this day, but this day should make us long for that day.

From "The Body: We Are Better Together. A series from 1st Corinthians"


SERMON AUDIO

 Here are some highlights from the message. If you share any of these on your social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) please use this link as a reference: http://ow.ly/o4BJT

•  Jesus' victory over sin and death is already accomplished, but it is not yet completed.
• As believers in Jesus, our salvation is secure. When Jesus returns, our salvation will be completed.
• Our heavenly bodes will be perfect, immortal, glorious, powerful, Spirit-filled—like Jesus' body.
• When Jesus rose from the dead, He demonstrated what our new, heavenly bodies will be like.
• Because of sin, nothing on earth is the way God wants it to be.
• As much as we love this day and this life, we should long for the day when Jesus returns and makes all things new. 
• What happens on that day is determined by what we do with Jesus on this day. 

Salubrious Worship: Sermon Recap

1st Corinthians 14

Big Idea: Healthy worship lifts God up and builds people up.

From "The Body: We Are Better Together. A series from 1st Corinthians"

SERMON AUDIO

 Here are some highlights from the message. If you share any of these on your social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) please use this link as a reference: http://ow.ly/nPn8y

• Healthy worship lifts God up and builds people up.
• Learn to make the Gospel accessible to everybody. The reason people decide not to follow Jesus shouldn't be because they don't understand the Gospel. 
•  We don't want people to not follow Jesus because we are offensive but because the message of the Gospel is offensive to them. 
• What obstacles or distractions do we present to unbelievers that keep them from Jesus that we need to remove?
• “Strive to excel in building up the church.” 1 Corinthians 14:12b 
• But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. James 1:22

Being and Doing: Sermon Recap

1st Corinthians 13

Big Idea: We are called to be the people of God before we do the work of God.

From "The Body: We Are Better Together. A series from 1st Corinthians"

SERMON AUDIO

 Here are some highlights from the message. If you share any of these on your social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) please use this link as a reference: http://ow.ly/nDWqn

• God has not given us a list to do; he has given us a person to follow—Jesus. 
• Our love for one another is the mark that God is at work among us.  
• Love moves you out of the center of your life.
• When we focus on who we are to be, it changes what we do. 
• To lay down your preferences and do something for somebody else is supernatural.
• Love de-centers self so that no matter how someone else treats us, we respond in kindness and compassion. 

Lee concluded his message on the love chapter like this: "God has not given us a list to do; he has given us a person to follow—Jesus." And so it was fitting that, after the service, we had several people publicly proclaim that very thing. In being baptized, they declared Jesus as Savior and Lord and we as a church became witnesses and partners in helping them follow Jesus. It was an exciting day for everyone involved!

Photos courtesy of Jan Weihl and Weihl Photography.