Harvest Church of Minden

#189 Looking to Others’ Needs Over My Freedoms

Paul consistently teaches the church to look to the needs of others, over their own. Each time there is a little different emphasis on the area that they focus on. Today in 1 Cor. 10 we look at the liberties that we have in Christ, and how to not abuse them to make others stumble. 

#188 The Confidence of a Believer

Today we look at the early church in the letter to the Hebrews to discuss the confidence that they had to enter boldly into the throne room of God through the blood of Christ. Understanding confidence correctly will allow us to be healthy in our approach to drawing near to God, holding fast to the confession we have, and stirring each other up in love and good works.

#187 The First Church

Starting a new series on the early church and discovering what it is they were about, and how they were encouraged to live by Paul and the other authors of the New Testament

#186 Worship That Builds Up

We close up our series on the gifts by finishing 1 Cor. 14. We look at the type of worship that Paul had in mind for Corinth. 

#185 A Word That Builds Up

Today we look at Paul's charge to use intelligible speech in a church service in order to build up a body. This was a key point for him to make to the Corinthian church

#181 A More Excellent Way

Today we look at Paul's argument of how love is the more excellent way to live because it is eternal, compared to the temporal spiritual gifts. As he corrects the thinking of the Corinthians, we too need to acknowledge what we prop up in place of love in our life. 

#180 The Functions of the Body

Today we look a little closer at the body motif that Paul uses to describe the church and the desired oneness that God has for believers. Oneness is achieved through the Spirit and it is diverse. The Body is made up of many smaller parts functioning as a whole. The church needs to be the same way. 

#179 Father’s Day

Taking a pause from our series, a short encouragement for fathers and believers as we look at Proverbs 3 today

#178 The Gift of Tongues

Today we talk about the last two gifts in the list for 1 Cor. 12, the Gift of Tongues and the Interpretation of Tongues. Both are not exhaustive, but we expand to passages beyond Acts 2 to dive a little deeper into the understanding of Tongues

#177 The Gift of Discernment

The ability to distinguish between the spirits, commonly known as the gift of discernment is something much needed in this age of subjective truth. The enemy is hard at work trying to deceive the follower of Christ, to draw them away from Him. We need to continue to improve our walks in order to deepen our understanding and reliance on Him, and not ourselves, or others.