Sunday Sermon - 1 Corinthians Message 36

02/16/2020

1 Corinthians 14:20-25

Opening Prayer:

O Holy God, you have not abandoned us, leaving us to use mere reason to figure out our purpose and function in life, but you have given us your words, your commands and decrees. Your recorded words are a sure guide and help, giving us counsel, comfort and direction, ex...

Sunday Sermon - 1 Corinthians Message 35

02/09/2020

1 Corinthians 14:6-19

Opening Prayer:

O Holy God, “happy are they who fear the Lord and have great delight in his commandments,” for they join you in your works of compassion, seeing your mercy extended through and to unworthy humanity. Thank you for giving us the work of your ministry, that we might know w...

Sunday Sermon - 1 Corinthians Message 34

02/02/2020

1 Corinthians 14:1-5

Opening Prayer:

O Holy God, “happy are they who put their trust in you,” for you satisfy our deep longings for righteousness, justice, and beauty by giving us yourself. May your people excel at fostering righteous desires and plans, that you would be honored by the inner life of your ch...

Sunday Sermon - 1 Corinthians Message 33

01/26/2020

1 Corinthians 13:8-13

Opening Prayer:

O Holy God, you are our light, he who clarifies truth from falsehood, who enables the mind to see reality, who illumines the heart with sight of divine beauty. You are our salvation, he who rescues from the oppression of sin and Satan, who liberates souls from addiction...

Sunday Sermon - 1 Corinthians Message 32

01/19/2020

1 Corinthians 13:1-7

Opening Prayer:

O Holy God, blessed are they who trust you, who do not trust in themselves or in the promises of another, for you are the God who inclines his ear to the lowly in heart, and your deliverance from sin is sure. Your open ear is an ever-available guard against loneliness an...

Sunday Sermon - 1 Corinthians Message 31

01/12/2020

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Opening Prayer:

O Holy God, how easy it is to forget that the salvation offered by Jesus Christ was not initially proclaimed to the Gentiles. Thank you that your Gospel message extended from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth, from millenia ago to present day, from Jew to Gentile, and...

Sunday Sermon - 1 Corinthians Message 30

01/05/2020

1 Corinthians 12:4-11

Opening Prayer:

O Holy God, the ever-living One, happy are those whose hearts offer you continual praise, whose sole desire is you yourself, for they fulfill the purpose for which they are made, to honor you by glorying in you. So beautiful is the God of gods that the mere sight of him...

Sunday Sermon - 1 Corinthians Message 29

12/29/2019

1 Corinthians 12:1-3

Opening Prayer:

O Holy God, the snow and hail and winds obey you, they commence and cease at your word. May your people be so obedient, eager to move and give and speak at your command. And may your people think as did the psalmist, speaking of all things being yours, even “his hail,” a...

Opening Prayer:
 

O Lord of Creation, you illuminate our hearts with the light of faith even as you illumined the void on the first day. And you order our hearts with the surety of truth even as you ordered the waters on the third day. And you fill our hearts with the fullness of joy, even as you filled the land and sea and sky with the fullness of living...

Opening Prayer:
 

O Holy God, he whose help is the God of Jacob has sure hope in a hard-hearted world. Though the justice of the nations is often delayed or mocked, your people have the comforting promise that the day of settling of all moral accounts draws ever-nearer, and that you extend mercy to all who submit to you. Where our unbelieving neighbors hav...