Jesus Advance With Dr. Ron Larson

This is Paul's teaching on love, sandwiched between two chapters on the gifts of the Spirit! The message is clear and powerful: the gifts of the Spirit are to be done/exercised in line with the fruit of the Spirit, and the greatest fruit of the Spirit is love. God''s love defines how we do the things of the Holy Spirit in the church. This is a life-changing passage of Scripture, often taken out of the context that Paul gave it in!

The Baptism in the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians 12:13 is about being immersed or plunged into Christ's body, the church. This immersion rescues us from our pre-Christ lifestyle of alienation, isolation, and independence. Understanding that Christ designed the church to look and work like a body simply changes everything for us. Nothing but true freedom follows!

The Christian life is a Jesus-focused, supernatural life in the Holy Spirit.  He gives gifts, ministries, and power so that the Body (the church) can express the fullness of Christ in our world.  This message brings Paul's core teaching on "Spiritual Things" into practical and healthy focus.

One of the dangers of Bible Study is that it is very easy to use a passage of Scripture out of context.  We frequently take bits and pieces of Paul's teaching on the Lord's Supper completely out of context.  The result is that we can make it easy to get "religious" about what we're doing.  This study brings Paul's brilliant teaching on the Lord's Supper into the larger context of his letter to the Corinthian church and the result is liberating on so many levels!

If I could be honest with you, there are some passages of Scripture I would rather "not" have to teach because of how sensitive they are!  But at Calvary Chapel we just simply teach the Word and take the next passage of Scripture that comes and deal with it honestly!  This is a rather difficult passage in that it deals with the spiritual idea of headship, being under spiritual authority, head coverings, and other touchy stuff!  I hope you enjoy listening, and most of all that you come away with a clear understanding of some subjects that may cause your spiritual hair to stand on end a bit! Enjoy!

Jesus simply sets people free--He is in the freedom business. But what do you do with the freedom that you've been given? What does it look like to use it wisely so that people are not turned off to Christ! This study from Paul's book of 1 Corinthians looks closely at using your radical freedom in Christ wisely!

Shortly after God powerfully delivered His people from a life of bondage in Egypt, Israel quickly fell deeply into sin. Paul says that these things were written so that we might learn from their example and avoid the pitfalls that tripped them up. This is a powerful teaching that ends with practical truth on how we can resist the temptation to sin in our lives. A word of hope and help tomorrow. 

Even though Paul was a genuine Apostle, some saw him as an inferior version of the "real" Apostles  in Jerusalem.  While he should have been celebrated and supported as an Apostle, they shamelessly undervalued him and left him to fend for himself financially.  Paul speaks to this issue of being partners in ministry, and the even greater issue of doing nothing that hinders the Gospel.   

The knowledge of the truth of God's Word must always work in conjunction with the love of God, otherwise we risk misrepresenting God and causing damage to the precisous people Christ died for!  

The world is hard at work to redefine marriage, sexuality, and morality from a perspective that is is simply hostile to Jesus Christ and the clear teachings of the Bible.  We are in a spiritual and cultural battle that seeks to replace every Christian, Biblical worldview with a false belief system. God tells us to not be conformed to the thinking of this world, but to be transformed by the renewal of our minds.  To be transformed, we must reject the world's perspectives of life and only embrace God's view of sex and sexuality, otherwise the world quickly squeezes us into its mold and neutralizes our Christian faith!

It's tough living in a world that has little or no capacity to define good and evil. Much of what we see in society is a redefining of what was formerly understood to be evil as now suddenly the "new" good! Thankfully God isn't confused about what confuses so many people. His truth (the Bible) and knowing His True One, Jesus, shines a billion watt flashlight on the darkness in our world.

How Jesus Shut Down Religion On Palm Sunday!

1 Corinthians 2 Natural Wisdom and the Wisdom of the Holy Spirit!

The foolishness of the message of the cross and the people He chooses!

1 Corinthians 1:1-17 Being Biblically-minded in a Corinthian world!