Invitations from WISDOM and FOLLY 1 Corinthians 1:18-2:16 - To those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. WISDOM: Wisdom Calls: Proverbs 1:20-21 20 Out in the open wisdom calls aloud, she raises her voice in the public square; 21 on top of the wall she cries out, at the city gate she makes her speech: She wants to save you:  Proverbs 2:12 - 12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from

Being on the right side simple means being on the side that God is. All this is possible through faith. Hebrew 11:1 - Now faith is the confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. v6 - And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he REWARDS those who earnestly seek him. v29 By faith people passed through the red sea as on DRY GROUND; but when the Egyptians

Worship refers to expression of reverence or adoration. Loving God for who He is and not for what He has given us. a. Grateful submission to God through prayer, praise, silence in meditation and thanksgiving. b. Responding in repentance and faith to the finished work in Christ. c. Service as worship Who do you worship? John 4:22 ''You Samaritans worship what YOU DO NOT KNOW v23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the TRUE worshipers will worship

1 Peter 2:4-10 Refers to Jesus as the living stone, rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him. When we come to Christ, we become living stones because we get our life from Christ. God is building a spiritual house using the spiritual stones or we are being built into a spiritual house with Christ as the chief corner stone. A corner stone joins two sides of a house - representing Jews and Gentiles are joined together in Christ. We must

Psalms 8:2 "Through the praise of children and infants, you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the FOE and the AVENGER. David knew the secret of dealing with the enemy, by offering praise to God. Children are the weakest, but when they praise God, the effect is to SILENCE the FOE and AVENGER. The devil is our foe and the avenger out to destroy us. Praise stops and silences Satan and his accusations. 1 Samuel 17:1 The philistines/Goliath

Ruth 1:16-17 – Where you go, I will go, where you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Where you die, I will die and there I will be buried. Naomi was at the very bottom of her grief cycle – bitter, resentful and full of self-pity. Ruth gave up everything she had to stay with Naomi up to the end back home. This is a perfect example of the sacrifice Christ made for us, that while we were at our lowest,

Genesis 16:1-14 v6 Hagar runs away because of mistreatment v7 The angel of the LORD (Jesus) found her, beside a spring in the WILDERNESS v9 The angel of the LORD commands her to return to her mistress, and submit to her authority (in 3, she had treated Sarah her mistress with contempt) v10 By obeying, she would be blessed (God will give her justice) v11 She was given Ishmael (meaning God hears), for the LORD heard the cry of her DISTRESS. v13 You

The believers in Corinth wondered how the dead will be raised and with what kind of bodies. 1 Corinthians 15:35-58 shows how the resurrected bodies will be like. They will be glories, immortal and spiritual/heavenly bodies at the sound of the trumpet to live forever. The analogy of a SEED: v36 A seed cannot GROW until it first DIES, v37 What you put (plant) in the ground is not the PLANT that will GROW, but only a bare SEED of wheat or whatever you

The subjects of worship and giving cannot be separated. Worship encompasses both the spiritual aspect of loving God, spirit, soul and body, but also the tangible worship to God with giving of our material substance and time. In fact if you consider both the Tabernacle of Moses and Solomon, the people first had to give both financially and of their time and talents to build the places of worship. God asked them to first sacrifice their wealth in order

Galatians 5:9 -  A little yeast works through the whole dough Time when the foundations [Body] will start to shake "When King David was very old, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him." 1 Kings 1:1 When a Generation Dies (What are you leaving for the next generation?): Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, Exodus 1:6 NIV Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. Exodus 1:8