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Kyle Kauffman 4/12/26 Kyle Kauffman 4/12/26

Hope Realized

Kyle Kauffman

In the events of Easter Jesus has forever secured the future hope for all who trust in him. This hope is that our bodies will be raised from the dead and we will live with Jesus in a perfect kingdom where there is no more trouble, tragedy, division, violence, loneliness, pain, and death. This is a hope that will be realized when Jesus returns to raise our bodies and bring his heavenly kingdom fully to this earth. It’s important for us to be clear on the content and timing of our hope. Hope is most powerful in our lives when it is most clear in our heads and hearts. While there are things about our future hope that remain a mystery, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58 gives us details that help us to have more clarity on the hope that Jesus has secured for us. It is a hope that stirs our hearts with longing and expectation. It is a hope that sustains us through the troubles and trials we face in this life. And it is a hope that can help us to live purposefully in the present even as we wait for the return of our Victorious King.

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Kyle Kauffman 4/5/26 Kyle Kauffman 4/5/26

Hope Secured

Kyle Kauffman

The events of our lives and this world can leave us feeling hopeless. Life can be so full of trouble, tragedy, division, violence, loneliness, pain, and death. In the midst of it all, we can find ourselves desperately longing for something hopeful to cling to. And yet hope itself can feel dangerous because we fear that what we hope for might never happen. To use the words secure hope can seem like an oxymoron. Hope by its very nature seems insecure. Hope is forward-facing and future-oriented. We don’t know or control the future and so we usually don’t know if the things we are hoping for will come to pass. So how can we speak of a secure hope? As Christians we are placing our ultimate hope in something that has already come to pass – the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This past reality is the grounds for our future hope. And because of that we are invited to find a secure hope in Jesus. A hope that will come to pass. A hope that nothing in this world can take from us. And a hope that can carry us through all the troubles of this life. Because on Easter Morning our hope was forever secured by Jesus rising from the dead.

1 Corinthians 15:1-28

Kyle Kauffman 3/29/26 Kyle Kauffman 3/29/26

Problem-Solving in the Church

Kyle Kauffman

We are going to have problems in the church. Hopefully that’s not a surprise to any of us. This is part of what it means to be a church full of sinful people. We are going to offend, wrong, disappoint, and hurt each other at times. Sometimes in small ways and sometimes in big ways. And part of what we are called to is to work through those problems together with one another. Some in the church at Corinth seem to have developed a bad practice in solving their problems: just take the issue to court. We may not have this issue in our own church, but we still have ways that we deal with our problems in unhealthy ways or ways that just reflect the world outside the church. It’s important for us to see how who we are in Christ should work its way out in how we deal with our problems. We are new people in Christ which involves cutting ties with the old ways we may have been marked by.

1 Corinthians 6:1-11

Brandon Fisher 3/22/26 Brandon Fisher 3/22/26

Counter-Cultural Love

Brandon Fisher

It’s hard for us to see how terms like judgment and discipline can go hand in hand with love and grace. Part of that is because we our own understanding of love is so easily shaped by the culture that we are a part of. God calls the church to live with a counter-cultural love that is willing to confront and discipline when needed those within our ranks who are living in unrepentant sin. We find in Corinth that the church was tolerated and even celebrating the sin of one of its members, rather than calling this man to repentance. While we may look at this situation and shake our heads over what was taking place, we should also recognize we still live in a world that is prone to tolerate or celebrate sin. The church is called to live differently by loving one another enough to confront and discipline sin when needed. This may not always feel like the most loving thing to do, but it reflects the love of Jesus who gave his life to save us from sin and make us holy.

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

Kyle Kauffman 3/15/26 Kyle Kauffman 3/15/26

A Cross-Shaped Life

Kyle Kauffman

One of the main problems in the church at Corinth seems to be that they were more shaped by the values and priorities of the culture they lived in then they were by the cross that they confessed to believe in. This is an ever-present danger for the individual Christian and the church as a whole. We can so easily adopt the values and priorities of the culture and simply adopt Christianity to those. But following Jesus is meant to radically change our values and priorities. We see this in the case of Paul and what he says to the Corinthians in chapter 4. He shows us what a cross-shaped life looks like and pushes us to think about where our lives may be more in line with the culture than with the cross. We are challenged to see that following Jesus is not just about adding something to our lives, it’s about a complete reorientation of our lives around the cross.

1 Corinthians 4:8-21

Kyle Kauffman 3/8/26 Kyle Kauffman 3/8/26

The Problem of Self

Kyle Kauffman

One of the most universal problems that people face in every culture and in every age is the problem of self. We may be prone to have to high a view of ourselves or too low a view of ourselves, but either way we are prone to think and focus on ourselves way too much. This was a problem in Corinth, and it remains a problem in our own day. So often we try to solve the problem of self by focusing more on ourselves with self-esteem, self-help, and self-care. This never cuts to the root of the issue and deals with the pride that is the source of all the problems with self. While we long to be free of the problem of self, none of our human solutions end up working. Only the gospel is able to liberate us from ourselves so that we can live a life of self-forgetfulness. This is what then frees us to joyfully live to glorify God and love others rather than being so focused on ourselves. This is what Paul found in Christ and this is what he invites us to find as well.

1 Corinthians 3:18-4:7

Kyle Kauffman 3/1/26 Kyle Kauffman 3/1/26

Growing Up in Christ

Kyle Kauffman

Many of the best gifts we receive in this life also come with responsibilities and challenges. Whether it is friendship, a job, marriage, children, owning a home, or any other gift, we can see how the gifts we are given also bring responsibilities and challenges in our lives. The same is true of ministry in the church. While Paul is mainly referring to himself and Apollos in 1 Corinthians 3:1-17, what he says here applies to every Christian. We are all called to minister to one another in the church. We have been given specific gifts, abilities, and interests that God wants us to use to love and serve one another. This ministry is both a gift and challenge for many reasons. And 1 Corinthians 3 is a great source of encouragement to us as we seek to do the work of ministry God has called us to.

1 Corinthians 3:1-17

Kyle Kauffman 2/22/26 Kyle Kauffman 2/22/26

True Wisdom

Kyle Kauffman

We live in a day of almost limitless information and knowledge. We can access it all at the hands of our fingertips. And the ability to know and find more information will likely only increase as our technology continues to increase. But is all this information and knowledge making us wise? Or is it making us fools? God tells us in 1 Corinthians 2 that true wisdom is not the same as simply knowing more or being culturally or technologically savvy. Rather true wisdom is found trusting God even when trusting him seems to go against the wisdom of our day. This trust should lead us to seek wisdom in what God has revealed rather than simply in more knowledge and information. And this wisdom is displayed in pursuing a life of living more like Christ. It’s this posture, source, and pursuit that define what true wisdom looks like in an age of limitless information and knowledge.

1 Corinthians 2:1-16

Keith Rohrer 2/15/26 Keith Rohrer 2/15/26

What’s the Fruit?

Keith Rohrer

What if the main reason Jesus saved you was not just to provide an escape plan out of hell? Just before He was arrested and killed, He told His disciples: “I chose and appointed you to bear fruit” (John 15:16). What did He mean by “fruit?” And was He just talking to His original 12 disciples, or speaking to believers today too? To you; to me? If so, does He think we’ll produce this fruit too?

John 15:1-8

Kyle Kauffman 2/8/26 Kyle Kauffman 2/8/26

United by the Cross

Kyle Kauffman

The church has struggled with unity from it’s very beginning. Anytime a group of people starts to gather together there is going to be the threat of division. Paul sees this as a threat not only to the harmony of the church but also to the truth and witness of the gospel. In a church that is full of different problems and issues, it’s instructive that Paul begins by dealing with the issue of division in the Corinthian church. The things that may cause us to divide at times today look different than they did for the Corinthian church, but division remains a constant threat to the church and our witness to the gospel. In 1 Corinthians 1:10-31 Paul shows us what source of our division is often rooted in, and he shows us how the message of the cross unites us together. And the more united we are around the cross of Jesus, the more effective we will be in our witness to the gospel in our world.

1 Corinthians 1:10-31