Rice Memorial Baptist Church

Division or unity? See what the Lord says through the Apostle Paul's letter to the Corinthian church.

First in this series in 1 Corinthians, Paul establishes who he is, who the Corinthians are and what God is doing. The church at Corinth was messed up! But Paul reminds them of who they are and all that they have in Jesus Christ.

There is a thread which can be seen throughout all the Christmas passages in the bible. Just about everyone was 'interrupted'.

John 3:16 isn't normally a text that is considered "Christmas-y", but when you think about it, it really is. God's love is unsolicited, undeserved and unlimited. See how God's love brought Jesus Christ to us.

We often talk about Advent from the perspective of the FIRST coming of Jesus Christ, in the manger, as a baby. But this time I'm talking about the hope we have as Christians today, looking for the hope of His second coming.

We know that God is jealous for us. But are we (you) jealous for God? Do you grieve and get troubled when God is mocked or ignored or dragged through the mud? Phinehas was. We don't want to imitate his actions, but we should pray for his zealous...and jealous...attitude towards God's holiness.

There are many degrees of persecution that are happening around the world today. Perhaps you are suffering from on. This was preached in view of the National Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, but one week late.

How many of us feel like the years have been stolen from us? How much sin has eaten away at our lives---our sin or the sins of others. Sacrifice, mistakes, lost opportunities. We can restore almost anything but we cannot restore the years. Only God can do that. And He promises that He will if we repent and believe.

The last in my series "What in the world is a Christian to do?" Stand firm! Hold fast! When the pressures of the culture and society seek to knock us down or cause us to drift, keep to the truth and the ways of God as given to us in the Bible. Don't waver!

This world is pretty messed up and Christians have an awful lot of struggles and suffering in it. How do we deal with it? How can we get through all the pain and hurt and anguish? Look forward to God's glory to be revealed to us!!