II Corinthians
Sound the Battle Cry
April 21, 2024 • Keith Doyle, Senior Pastor • 2 Corinthians 10:1–8
How should we approach, respond to and deal with personal conflict? - Before You Do Anything…Check Your Attitude (1-3), “I Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ…” (1) - Before You Do Anything…Check Your Artillery (4-6), “For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power…” (4) - Before You Do Anything…Check Your Aim (7,8), “Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone if confident that He is Christ’s, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we…” (7)
The Cheerful Giver - Part 2
April 14, 2024 • Keith Doyle, Senior Pastor • 2 Corinthians 9:9–15
How do we move our hearts to a place of spontaneous generosity? As we embrace the… The Bounty of Kingdom Grace (8-10), “And God is able….He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing…” (8;10) The Benefits of Kingdom Giving (11-15), “By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission that comes from your confession of the Gospel of Christ…” (13) -*It Meets Needs (11,12) -*It Awakens Gratitude (12) -*It Glorifies God (13) -*It Stimulates Prayer (14)
The Cheerful Giver - Part 1 (8:30am)
April 7, 2024 • Keith Doyle, Senior Pastor • 2 Corinthians 9:1–8
How do we move our hearts to a place of spontaneous generosity? - Motivated by the Beauty of Giving (v.1-5), “…for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia…” (2) - Mobilized by the Blessing of Giving (v.6-8), “…each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver…” (7)
The Fruit of Biblical Discipleship
February 25, 2024 • Keith Doyle, Senior Pastor • 2 Corinthians 7:2–16
What is the fruit of biblical discipleship? - Fruit Test # 1: A Culture of Genuine Community (2-7), “…I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy…” (4) - Fruit Test # 2: A Culture of Genuine Contrition (8-16), “As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting…for you felt a godly grief…for godly grief produces a repentance…whereas worldly grief produces death…” (9,10)
The Boundaries of an Ambassador
February 18, 2024 • Keith Doyle, Senior Pastor • 2 Corinthians 6:14—7:1
The Christian conundrum…we are “IN” the world, not to be “OF” the world, but are to “GO” to it… Are we to engage our culture or completely separate from It? - Why Can’t Believers be “Yoked” with Non-Believers? (14-16), “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers!” (14) - What Kinds of Activities or Associations are Forbidden? (6:17-7:1), “therefore go out from their midst and be separate from them…let us cleanse ourselves” (17;7:1)
The Heart of an Ambassador
February 11, 2024 • Michael Hansen • 2 Corinthians 6:1–13
How are you representing Jesus to those around you? Proposition: Represent Jesus to everyone in every way. Embrace your new calling. (v. 1-2) - Do Not Receive in Vain: dead faith that produces no results and is devoid of moral, intellectual, or spiritual value. Evidence Christ in all things. (v. 3-10) - Commend Yourself: to provide evidence of faith through action. Exchange apathy with affection. (v. 11-13) - Widen Your Heart: open your heart to teaching, correcting, rebuking, and training in righteousness.
The God Who Makes All Things New Part 2
January 28, 2024 • Keith Doyle, Senior Pastor • 2 Corinthians 5:19–21
What hope is there for broken hearts? - The Burden of Reconciliation (19,20), “…In Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself…we are ambassadors for Christ…” (19, 20) - The Blessings of Reconciliation (18-19), “…to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (21)
The God Who Makes All Things New
January 21, 2024 • Keith Doyle, Senior Pastor • 2 Corinthians 5:11–19
What hope is there for broken hearts? - In Christ, We Ponder the Miracle of Reconciliation (11-17), “…for the love of Christ controls us…” (14) - In Christ, We Proclaim the Message of Reconciliation (18-19), “…and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation…” (19)
The Fruit Test
January 14, 2024 • Keith Doyle, Senior Pastor • 2 Corinthians 5:1–10
How do we live with an eternal perspective? By Contemplating Frailty (1-9), “For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling” (2) - Don’t cling to tightly to your temporal life - However, what we do in the temporal matters in the eternal By Courageous Fruit-bearing (10), “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ…” (10) - All believers will stand before Christ as Judge - The Aim of this Judgement - Take the Test: Faith without works is dead
Seeing the Unseeable
January 7, 2024 • Eric Omdal • 2 Corinthians 4:13–18
How can we keep Hope alive through the struggle? Like the Psalmist in Psalm 116. We Persevere with Hope Because: - God Promises Final Resurrection – vs. 14 - God Produces Fruitful Results – vs. 15 - God Provides Fresh Renewal – vs. 16 God Prepares Future Rewards – vs. 17 Big Idea: We hope in what is unseen, because the future God promises far outweighs what we see today. Application: Fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. (vs. 18)
Roots of Endurance in Christian Witness - Part 2
November 26, 2023 • Keith Doyle, Senior Pastor • 2 Corinthians 4:7–12
How do we keep a vibrant, faithful Christian witness? - We are Fragile but Filled (7), “…but we have this treasure in jars of clay…” (7) - We Are Fragile but Fervent (8,9), “…we are afflicted in every way…” (8) - We Are Fragile but Fruitful (10-12), “…So death is at work in us, but life in you” (12)
The Roots of Endurance in Christian Witness
November 19, 2023 • Keith Doyle, Senior Pastor • 2 Corinthians 4:1–6
How do we keep a vibrant, faithful Christian witness? - By Positioning Our Hearts on God’s Mercy (1,2), “…having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart…” - By Puzzling Over the Reality of Human Misfortune (3,4), “Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers…” - By Proclaiming the Good News Miracle (5,6), “…for what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord…”
Jesus Sets Us Free
October 29, 2023 • Keith Doyle, Senior Pastor • 2 Corinthians 3:11–18
How Do We Refresh Our New Covenant Identity? By Rehearsing the Gospel together - You’ve Been Promoted From Blindness To Sight (11-16), “For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, (how) much more will what is permanent have glory” (11) - You’ve Been Pulled From Bondage To Freedom (16-18), “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another” (18a)
Core Values in Ministry
October 22, 2023 • 2 Corinthians 3:1–11
What derails church ministry? What sustains church ministry? - Self-promotion derails. Heart transformation sustains. (v. 1-3) “…not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts...” - Self-sufficiency derails. Christ’s sufficiency sustains. (v. 4-6) “… the letter kills, but the spirit gives life...” - Fading glory derails. Surpassing glory sustains. (v. 7-11) “… what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it.”