Teaching on 2 Corinthians (Page 2)

Patrick Morley, in his book I Surrender, writes that the church’s main problem today is in the error “that we think we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior. It is revival without reformation, without repentance.”…

God has given us all a “call to duty.” He has made us His ambassadors to this lost and dying world we live in. In order to be effective in our calling, we must befriend lost sinners, while remaining separate from their sin.  As Vance Havner once said, “We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it. Separation is contact…

A few years back, a Christian magazine did a study and discovered that over 80% of those who enter into full-time ministry quit within five years. How could that be so? One of the main reasons so many don’t last in the ministry is that they have faulty motives. In today’s text, Paul gives us the…

One day a preacher who had just experienced a terrible personal tragedy, walked past a construction site where a huge cathedral was being built. As he watched the men work, he noticed one man carving a small triangle out of granite with a chisel and a hammer. The preacher called out to the stone…

In our study on Wednesday nights in Judges, we’ve been looking at this strange character named Micah. He was a religious man who thought he was well-pleasing to God. He had a nice home, and in his home he had his own religious shrine set up with silver idols of god. He also had his own Levite…

If an airline company was to give you the privilege of flying anywhere you wanted to, anytime you wanted to, that would be great, wouldn’t it? But if they didn’t provide the plane with gas, you wouldn’t go anywhere. The workings of flying a plane are not nearly as complicated as the supernatural…

Paul in today’s text will tell those of us who are born-again believers that we are in the process of having our souls transformed through supernatural metamorphosis into the image of Christ. The IVP Commentary describes this process as follows: “Transformation is not a one-shot affair. It is…

Paul in 2 Corinthians 3 tells the church at Corinth that they are “an Epistle of Christ.” H. A. Ironside used to like to say “it takes the whole church to make His epistle, but each one of us is one little verse in that epistle.” So what kind of testimony do the verses of our lives say to this lost…

C. S. Lewis once said, “Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is…

Scientists now say that it wasn’t a giant gash that sunk the 900-foot cruise ship, the Titanic, but instead a series of small narrow slits across the watertight holds in the hull of the ship.  Fifteen hundred people died as the result of small chinks in the armor of that ship. As Christians, small…