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Settling Disputes

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Don Merritt

1Corinthians 6:1-11 This is a strange passage, not because of its content, but because of its placement in context. Paul has been talking about sexual immorality in the church at Corinth, and here he jumps into what seems to be … Continue reading →

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Paul Takes a Hard line

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Don Merritt

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been … Continue reading →

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Patience Please

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Don Merritt

  Whoever is patient has great understanding,     but one who is quick-tempered displays folly. Proverbs 14:29 I’m not really sure what I can say to enhance or explain this proverb, for it seems pretty obvious to me what Solomon is … Continue reading →

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Sunday Sermon Notes: March 11, 2018

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Don Merritt

Title: Basics of New Testament Worship (2) Text: Romans 12:1-2 Last week we saw that worship can be a very tricky subject because we have little actual guidance from the New Testament Scriptures that directly and clearly reflect a teaching … Continue reading →

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A Warning or a Threat?

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Don Merritt

1 Corinthians 4:14-21 The NIV adds a subheading to this passage that reads, “Paul’s Appeal and Warning”. I think that the editors were very diplomatic, for I would have written it more like this: “Paul’s Threat to Corinth”. When I … Continue reading →

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Paul’s Example

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Don Merritt

This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. I care very little if I am … Continue reading →

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Don’t You Know?

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Don Merritt

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?  If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Paul … Continue reading →

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Planting, Watering and Growing

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Don Merritt

1 Corinthians 3:1-16 As Chapter 3 begins, we need to pause and check our contexts. Paul is writing to the Corinthians to address several serious problems in the church in Corinth as they existed c. 55 AD. In this, the … Continue reading →

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The Wisdom of God Revealed – 2

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Don Merritt

For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from … Continue reading →

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The Wisdom of God Revealed

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Don Merritt

We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined … Continue reading →

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