Exalting God, Edifying Believers, Evangelizing the Lost

Love Others You May Not Like

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/16/20 Read 1 Corinthians 11:17-22. The Christians at Corinth couldn’t agree on much. They loved divisiveness in the church. As a friend of mine used to say, “It’s likely that if you put four of them in a room, you’d get five...
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Accept Your God-Given Role

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/15/20 Read 1 Corinthians 11:1-16. Just as we do today, the Corinthian church struggled with gender roles and questions of submission, so Paul instructed them in the ways of Biblical manhood and womanhood. On the surface, this passage might seem to be...
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Consider Your Neighbor

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/14/20 Read 1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1. Christ has given us tremendous freedom that we might follow Him wholeheartedly. For, if we are constantly worried about following a rule to make ourselves acceptable to God, we have nullified the power of grace....
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Cultivate an Undivided Heart

Read 1 Corinthians 10:14-22. Corinth was a dark, entangling pagan culture. But God freed the Corinthian Christians, calling them to salvation through Christ Jesus. As God’s chosen people, the believers in Corinth were to witness to the Truth of the Gospel in their society....
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Be Content with What God Has Given You

By Michael Youssef, Ph D.  07/12/20 Read 1 Corinthians 10:11-13. The Israelites wandered in the desert for forty years under Moses’ leadership. They had none of the distractions of our modern lives—no smart phones, no social media, no 24-hour news cycle. They were told to...
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