Teaching by George Lewellyn (Page 62)

If we look honestly in our text at how Paul prescribed the order of worship for the Church at Corinth, it should cause us to question just how we do church today in the 21st Century. John Calvin in his time realized that the church had strayed from her original way of operating and had returned to…

While still a young man, Benjamin Franklin wrote the following epitaph for himself: “Here lies the body of Benjamin Franklin, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, stripped of its lettering and gilding, food for worms. But its work shall not be lost; for it will once more appear in…

This week Paul is going to talk about prophesy as one of the most important gifts; that’s because it is used to build up the church. The following little poem makes the point about the importance of edification: A Builder Or a Wrecker As I watched them tear a building down A gang of men in a busy…

There’s a Peanuts cartoon that shows Lucy standing with her arms folded and a stern expression on her face. Charlie Brown pleads, “Lucy, you must be more loving. This world really needs love. You have to let yourself love to make this world a better place.” Lucy angrily whirls around and knocks…

Andrew Murray once wrote, “May not a single moment of my life be spent outside the light, love and joy of God’s presence and not a moment without the entire surrender of my self as a vessel for Him to fill full of His Spirit and His love.” It’s clear from those words that Murray…

Someone once wisely stated, “Idolatry is the track on which the train of demons rides.” It’s true, if we turn from the True and Living God to worship idols or we turn the True and Living God into an idol–someone of our own creation–we open ourselves up to demonic activity. Because of idolatry, the church has become susceptible to demonic presence primarily in…

Ralph Wilson states in his sermons on the Spiritual Gifts that “if we take Paul’s letter to the Corinthians seriously, we must come to the conclusion that the gift of prophecy is indispensable to the church. When we try to build churches without this gift being active, it is like trying to…

An alcoholic, who became a believer, was asked how he could possibly believe all the nonsense in the Bible about miracles. “You don’t believe that Jesus changed the water into wine do you?” “I sure do, because in our house Jesus changed the whiskey into furniture.” (R.…

How many of you have ever experienced “a sure enough” supernatural healing by the hand of God through someone who has the gift of healing? I have. If you haven’t, it could be because you don’t believe such an experience is even possible. But as we will learn today, “the gifts of healings” are still…