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Session 2: Confronting Envy, Boasting, and Pride
Welcome back to our series Church Goals, where we’re journeying verse by verse through 1 Corinthians 13—the Bible’s masterclass on love. In our first session, we laid a foundation with patience and kindness, two essential qualities of love that actively sustain and bless others. Love is Humble and Selfless Today,…
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The Death of Charlie Kirk: A Sobering Call to Examine Our Gospel
The death of a man—especially one in the public eye—always draws a crowd. Some weep, others jeer. Some question his legacy, others canonize it. But before we can rightly speak of any man’s death, we must ask the more important question: Did he live by the Gospel? Did he have…
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Session 1: Establishing the Foundation of Love
Series Introduction: The Core of the Christian Life Welcome to our first session in the series Church Goals, where we’ll explore the power and practice of love as presented in 1 Corinthians 13. Over the next 22 sessions, we’ll unpack each verse of this deeply transformative chapter—often called the “Love…
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6. Freedom from Man-Made Religion
Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ. Do not let anyone who delights in false…
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5. Christ, Not Shadows
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form. And you have been made complete in…
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4. Christ, God’s Mystery
For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face, that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so…
Moe Bergeron 