Sermons on Universal Church

Sermons on Universal Church

1 Cor. 1:1‑9

Back to the Basics Introduction:  The world’s greatest evangelist of all time was on his second of three great missionary journeys, planting churches around Greece and Turkey, when he first visited the city of Corinth.  He had just come from Athens, about 50 miles to the northeast, where he experienced a rather disappointing reception to the Gospel message.  The philosophers who debated him on Mars Hill, just below the Acropolis, ridiculed his witness to the resurrection of the dead, though a few believed…

2 Corinthians 1:1, 2

Going Against the Grain Let me begin this morning by expressing my gratitude for the study month I just experienced.  When I went to St. Louis in 1984 one of the really attractive carrots the leaders there enticed me with was a 3-month sabbatical every five years.  I suspect their thinking was that within five years the church plant would either succeed to the point they could afford to let me have the sabbatical or it would fail and they wouldn’t have…