1 Corinthians: How to win at Christianity
Preached on Sunday 10th October 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.
Our twenty-eighth sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .
1. Follow me:
Love with a cost (v1-9)
2. Follow them:
The love right under your nose (v10-18)
3. Follow us:
Love with a kiss (v19-24)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Preached on Sunday 6th May 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.
Our twenty-first sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .
Seeing things as they really are: v12-14
Think ‘We’, not ‘Me”
1. “They don’t need me” people: v15-20
God values you for more than your usefulness
2. “I don’t need them” people: v21-26
God’s work in you goes deeper than your usefulness
Learning to love God’s value system: v27-31
Be zealous for the things you have, that serve others