- Freedom
- Paul’s defence (v1-14)
- Paul’s example
- Labour and sacrifice (v12, 15-18)
- Flexibility and accomodation (v19-23)
- Discipline and purpose (v24-27)
- What it’s not about
- Asceticism and self-hatred
- The ‘missionary double-standard’
- What it is about
- Purposefulness in the service of the Gospel
- Self-denial for the sake of the Gospel
- An invitation…
- The Corinthian argument: Knowledge and Freedom
- Paul’s response: Love, Conscience, and the Death of Jesus
- What does this look like for us?
- Introduction
- ‘There remain with God’ (v24)
- ‘The present crisis’ (v26)
- ‘The time is short…from now on’ (v29)
- Reasons to stay single (v32-35)
- Decisions for the betrothed and the widowed (v36-40)
- Conclusions
- Love in an age of manufactured discontent
- Particular issues…
- For the married: sex or celibacy? (v1-7)
- For widows and the unmarried: to (re)marry or not to (re)marry? (v8-9)
- For those married to a fellow believer: to stay together or to separate? (v10-11)
- For those married to an unbeliever: to stay or to leave? and if your partner leaves?
- General Principles…
- Accepting God’s gifts (v7, 17, 21)
- Keeping God’s commandments (v10, 19)
- Responding to God’s call (v17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24)
- Living in God’s freedom (v23)
- The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Jesus and Mary
- Grief by the grave (v11-15)
- ‘Mary’ (v16)
- ‘My Father and your Father’ (v17)
- ‘I have seen the Lord’ (v18)
- Jesus and Us
- Believing without seeing
- ‘We have “seen” the Lord’
- Final Words Matter
- Psalm 22
- Turning to God in complaint (v1-2)
- Remembering past deliverances (v3-5)
- Acknowledging the presence of enemies (v6-18)
- Pleading with God for help (v19-21)
- Thanking God for deliverance (v22-31)
- A Psalm for us
- A Psalm for Jesus
- ‘I’ll rest when I’m dead’
- Rest and Creation
- Rest and Redemption
- Real Rest
- Mission Work
- Blessing Work
- Backdrop: Full-time ministry
- Mission and Blessing Work working together
- Blessing to Mission
- Mission to Blessing
- A model for mission
- Organising?
- The Good of Working together
- Work enabling work
- When work is enabled
- The Peril of Working Together
- The peril of achieving good work
- The peril of abandoning good work
- Organising Love