Empty Your Pockets First
You'll see how easy it is to carry the world's habit of ranking people straight into church, and why the Lord's Supper is the one practice designed to strip all of that away.
Scripture
Sermons on 1 Corinthians
22 sermons in the archive.
Rights Versus Relationships
You'll hear why being theologically correct can still damage the people around you, and how Paul's ancient argument about meat sacrificed to idols draws a clear line between using knowledge as a weapon and using it as a gift.
Your Body Actually Matters
You'll hear why the Christian view of the body is far more physical and specific than most people assume, and what it means that your body is called a temple of the Holy Spirit rather than just a temporary shell for your soul.
Discipline That Aims at Rescue
You'll hear why Paul's harshest command in 1 Corinthians 5 is actually an act of care, and what it means for how the church handles sin that damages both people and its witness to the world.
Wisdom That Actually Delivers
You'll see why the most persuasive voices in history sometimes caused the most damage, and what that means for how you trust what you think you know.
Free to Be Nobody
You'll hear how the apostle Paul's admission of weakness and plain speech was actually a form of freedom, and what it might look like to stop needing other people's approval before you can act, speak, or believe openly.
When the Gospel Looks Foolish
You'll hear why the cross looked like failure to the ancient world, and why that same offense still exposes the hidden assumptions you bring into your faith.
Setting Yourself Aside
You'll hear how Paul's decision to give up his right to payment unlocks a practical principle: the things we're most entitled to are sometimes the very things that block others from hearing what we most want them to hear.
Love That Costs Something
You'll hear why Paul's famous description of love in 1 Corinthians 13 is not just personal advice but a direct challenge to how the church as a whole treats the members of its own body who are being pushed to the margins.
A Meal That Levels Everyone
You'll come away understanding why communion is meant to be shared rather than performed, and what it actually means to receive it well, whether you grew up in the church or are hearing about it for the first time.
Your Differences Are the Point
You'll hear why the diversity within a church community isn't a problem to manage but a gift that makes the whole body function as God designed, and you'll be asked to consider which part of that body you actually are.
Die to Rise Now
You'll hear why the resurrection isn't only a future promise but a present challenge, and what it might look like to let go of your own carefully built self so something new can take its place.
Love You Left Undone
You'll hear why Paul's famous love chapter was written not for people celebrating love, but for a church weaponizing spiritual gifts against each other, and what that means for the times you stay quiet rather than act.
Feel Each Other's Pain
You'll hear why one verse from 1 Corinthians 12 might be the key to everything Paul is trying to tell the church, and how genuinely sharing in others' suffering and joy is a gift the Spirit gives, not a discipline you achieve on your own.
Whose Meal Is This?
You'll hear how the Christians in Corinth turned a sacred shared meal into a display of social status, and what that failure reveals about the habits we still bring into church today.
Set Aside Your Advantage
You'll see how Paul's decision to work a day job and refuse payment wasn't about money at all, but about removing every possible barrier between people and the gospel, and what that same posture might cost you.
Knowledge That Puffs, Love That Builds
You'll see how the ancient debate over food sacrificed to idols is really a question about whether your spiritual confidence is helping or harming the people around you, and why love is the truer measure of maturity than knowledge.
Give Up Your Advantage
You'll see how Paul's warning against Christians suing each other is not a rule to check off a list, but a call to give up your privileges and advantages the same way Jesus emptied himself on the cross.
Judgment Loosens Its Grip
You'll hear why the impulse to judge others (and yourself) is rooted in a mistaken sense of who you are, and how letting go of that role is less a sacrifice than a genuine relief.
Unity Is the Gospel
You'll hear why real unity in a church or community isn't just a social goal but is rooted in the gospel itself, and what jealousy, factions, and immaturity actually cost the people around you.
Strength Found in Weakness
You'll hear why the Christian faith keeps tripping up both insiders and outsiders, and what it actually looks like to stop reaching for power and start aligning yourself with a crucified Christ.
Wrong Beliefs, Wrong Church
You'll see how the divisions tearing apart the church in Corinth trace back not to bad behavior but to bad theology, and why that diagnosis still matters when churches today fracture along lines of personality, prestige, or spiritual one-upmanship.