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February 25, 2023

Day 4: Persistence despite opposition

Day 4: Persistence despite opposition

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 45-50 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:22-24 […]

February 24, 2023

Day 3: The Apostles’ emphasis

Day 3: The Apostles' emphasis

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pg. 38-45 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.  1 Peter 2.24 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ […]

February 23, 2023

Day 2: The Perspective of Jesus

Day 2: The Perspective of Jesus

Reading: The Cross of Christ, pages 31-38 31 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 And he said this plainly. And Peter took him […]

February 22, 2023

Day 1: The Centrality of the Cross

Day 1: The Centrality of the Cross

Further reading The Cross of Christ, pages 23-31 18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1.18 ESV The Christians’ choice of a cross as the symbol of their faith is the more surprising […]

February 22, 2023

A letter on church planting

A letter on church planting

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And […]

February 7, 2023

Fruitful Witness

Fruitful Witness

By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in […]

February 2, 2023

Relational Tension

Relational Tension

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. | 2 Corinthians 13:11 We finished the book of 2 Corinthians Sunday, and pastor Andrew led us through the salutation of this letter to the church in Corinth. […]

January 17, 2023

Process vs. Product

Process vs. Product

    “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?     says the LORD;     I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams     and the fat of well-fed beasts;     I do not delight in the blood of bulls,     or of lambs, or of goats. | Isaiah 1:11 At our men’s breakfast on Saturday, I […]

January 3, 2023

Just keep going

Just keep going

But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be?  As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. | 1 Corinthians 12:18–20 I had a number of people comment to me over the last […]

December 28, 2022

A different sort of resolution

A different sort of resolution

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. […]

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