Date: 04/02/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Sorrowful Yet Rejoicing
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:1-13
Description: Are Christians supposed to be happy? It depends on what you mean by happy. If Paul's description of his life is our guide, we should expect our lives to be sorrowful. And we should expect to be always rejoicing.
Date: 03/26/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Reconciliation
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:18-21
Description: The Bible teaches that we were all made for a relationship we have broken. Our deepest need is reconciliation. This text shows us how to get peace with God, and how to spread it.
Date: 03/19/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: In Christ
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:11-17
Description: "In Christ" is a phrase that comes up all throughout Paul's letters. It's easy to pass right over it without paying much notice. But what does it mean to be "in Christ"? And why is it so important?
Date: 03/12/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What Are You Waiting For?
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:1-10
Description: Waiting is a basic Christian posture. We walk by faith, not by sight, until God's promises come to pass. In this passage Paul clarifies what it is that we're waiting for, and what we do while we wait.
Date: 03/05/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Beyond Comparison
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Description: Paul says the problems we face now can't compare to the eternal glory we're promised in Christ. He says we get this truth when we focus not on what we can see but on what we can't see. But how do we compare what we can see to what we can't see?
Date: 02/26/17
Speaker: Matt Givens
Title: Jars of Clay
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:7-15
Description: Because of Jesus, the world's greatest treasure comes hidden in jars of clay--common, unexceptional, even fragile and weak. That means, for the Christian, suffering is never what it seems.
Date: 02/19/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Freedom
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:12 - 4:6
Description: True freedom, the freedom that comes by God's Spirit, is not primarily freedom from something holding you back. It's freedom for--freedom to see, to enjoy, and to be transformed by the glory of Jesus.
Date: 02/12/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Proof in the Pudding
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:1-11
Description: True freedom, the freedom that comes by God's Spirit, is not primarily freedom from something holding you back. It's freedom for--freedom to see, to enjoy, and to be transformed by the glory of Jesus.
Date: 02/05/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Fragrant Knowledge
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 2:12-17
Description: How does the knowledge of God spread throughout the world? It's not a question we would normally ask, but it's crucial for understanding our calling. Paul shows us we've got to recognize the difference between God's responsibility and ours.
Date: 01/29/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Loving Correction
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:23-2:11
Description: Here are four things we can learn from Paul about how to correct one another in a healthy way.
Date: 01/22/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Godly Sincerity
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:12-22
Description: One of the main reasons Paul wrote this letter was to defend his own sincerity against people who thought he was speaking from both sides of his mouth. And sincerity is certainly worth defending. You want to know that someone means what he says, that he's not holding anything back, and that you can trust him to follow through. But sincerity is easier to require from someone else than to produce consistently in ourselves. Paul explains how the grace of God is the only sure path to the sincere lives we want.
Date: 01/15/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Afflicted Comforters
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1:3-11
Description: Paul describes a community where, though everyone experiences suffering, everyone is comforted and everyone is responsible for comforting others. He helps us learn to see our suffering for what God is doing in us and what he will do through us.
Date: 01/08/17
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Authentic Christianity: Introducing 2 Corinthians
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 1-13
Description: Why do we need this ancient letter? Here are at least three reasons.
Date: 11/20/16
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: No King In Israel
Scripture: Judges 17:1-21:25
Description: Judges ends in almost total darkness with some of the ugliest stories anywhere in the Bible. But even these darkest of scenes point the way to light. They're here to show us what we need if we really want lasting justice. We need a true and worthy king.
Date: 11/13/16
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Last But Not Least
Scripture: Judges 13:1-16:31
Description: In Samson, the last of the judges, we see a leader of unprecedented power leading a life of unbridled selfishness. We have a judge, in other words, who's no better than his people with no interest in saving them. But still God uses him. And in his story we get a glimpse of the future, of how God saves, and whom.
Date: 10/23/16
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Holy Love
Scripture: Judges 10:6-11:40
Description: The story of Jephthah is a dark one. It is a story of deliverance like the others, but the focus is not on his courage or even God's power. The focus is Jephthah's tragic misunderstanding of God's love; and it shows us our only hope for a peaceful, life-giving relationship with God is God's free, undeserved, gracious love for us in Jesus.
Date: 10/16/16
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Like Father Like Son
Scripture: Judges 8:1-9:57
Description: Gideon's decline and Abimelech's fall show what happens when you treat your power as a blank check for your agenda, not a stewardship from God. This story warns us against abusing the privileges and opportunities we've been given, and it points us to the leader we desperately need.
Date: 10/09/16
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Lord Is With You
Scripture: Judges 6:1-7:25
Description: The story of Gideon focuses on Gideon's slow-rising faith, God's remarkable patience, and the promise that the Lord delivers those willing to give up their desire for control and trust him.
Date: 10/02/16
Speaker: Matt Givens
Title: Expect The Unexpected
Scripture: Judges 4:1-5:31
Description: It may be that the stories in Judges follow a familiar cycle, but there's nothing predictable about the way God delivers his people. When he acts to save them, he makes it obvious that he's the one who does the saving.
Date: 09/25/16
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Dark Comedy
Scripture: Judges 3:12-30
Description: This chapter introduces what's typically called the Judges cycle. It's a pattern that most of the individual stories follow and it's the key to the meaning of the whole book.
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