1 Corinthians

27. The Life of the Dead (1 Corinthians 15:35-58)

Preached on Sunday 3rd October 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.

Our twenty-seventh sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .


On meaning and emptiness

1. What an astonishing world teaches:

God’s work is full of radical reversal (v35-41)

2 What an astonishing Gospel confirms:

Our future in Jesus is one of radical reversal (v42-49)

3. What an astonishing God gives:

Glory and value to a life of lowly toil (v50-58)

26. The League of the Dead (1 Corinthians 15:12-34)

Preached on Sunday 26th September 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.

Our twenty-sixth sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .


How to win: Paul’s answer

1. Your hope is pitifully small (v12-19)

2. God’s project is wonderfully big (v20-28)

3. So fall in with the league of the dead! (v29-32)

25. The Lord of the Dead (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)

Preached on Sunday 19th September 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.

Our twenty-fifth sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .


Where does Jesus fit in the Corinthian picture of the Christian life?

Chapter 15: bigger on the inside

  • What is it actually about?

  • Why leave it till last?

1. What you received:
A once-dead Messiah, sacrificed for you (v1-7)

2. Who you believed:
A deathly Apostle, spent for you (v8-11)

24. For the Many (1 Corinthinans 14:20-40)

Preached on Sunday 12th September 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.

Our twenty-fourth sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .


1. Love teaches grownups to think of others (20-25)

2. Love teaches grownups to hold our tongues (26-35)

  • “tongues” (27-28)

  • Prophecy (29-33)

  • Questions (34-35)

3. Love teaches grownups how much we owe (36-40)

23. Building Back Babel (1 Corinthians 14:1-19)

Preached on Sunday 27th June 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.

Our twenty-third sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .


On muskets and pikestaffs…

  • Divisive speech: pride, confusion and judgement

1. Two gifts, and two goals

  • “Tongues”

  • “Prophecy”

  • The heart of the matter (v4)

2. Self-Directed Worship: Building Babel

  • Lifeless (when we were made for life and meaning)

  • Alienating (when “barbarians” are meant to be brothers)

  • Elitist (when “idiots” are meant to be insiders)

22. Love, to the loveless shown (1 Corinthians 13)

Preached on Sunday 13th June 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.

Our twenty-second sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .


A beautiful insult…

  • The heart of Paul’s argument concerning gifts (Ch 12-14)

  • The heart of Paul’s argument with the Corinthians

1. “Giftedness" without love (v1-3)

2. “Love" without content (v4-7)

3. “Maturity” without Jesus (v8-13)