Steve Cree spoke to us from 1 Corinthians 11:2-16.  This passage is about much more than the ‘presenting’ issue of head coverings.  Paul is correcting Corinthian behaviour that is promoting unholiness, dishonouring marriage and Christ himself.
Key Verse
In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
1 Corinthians 11:11
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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 we see more “Corinth in the church” rather than “the church of God in Corinth” (1:2). Last week it was the legal realm, this week the sexual realm. But the common factor in it all is serving self rather then Jesus. The Corinthians’ favorite slogan is “everything [...]

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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians by Pete Thompson we continue to wrestle with the theme of judgment. In chapter 5 Paul had explained the importance of judging sin within the church and withholding judgment on outsiders. This week, in 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 Paul rebukes the church for their very Corinthian habit of taking [...]

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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians 4:1-13 by Wade Iedema, we see Paul bringing his arguments from the last few chapters of 1 Corinthians together, both defending his ministry of the gospel of Christ and re-asserting God as the judge he and all others will be accountable to for their ministry of that gospel. [...]

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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 by Steve Cree, we hear Paul’s call for unity that inspired our series title for 1 Corinthians 1-4: ‘perfectly united’. Paul’s appeal to the deeply divided Corinthian church is that they be be “perfectly united in mind and thought”, as he points them to the cross of [...]

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