Kaleo Church Podcast

What do you think Heaven will be like? How will love be different there then it is here on earth? What impact should the fact that the other gifts will pass away while love will never end have on the things we prioritize here on earth? These are just a few of the questions we will be discussing in this sermon.

       How does love respond to all of the obstacles that come against it? Here in I Corinthians 13:7 we see that love "bears all things" in order to keep on loving. That means that love knows no excuses? But how can love keep loving in really difficult situations? And what does that even look like? These are some of the questions we will consider in this message on I Corinthians 13:7.

Rejoicing at wrongdoing is the opposite of love and it robs us of true joy – a joy that is found in the love of God for sinners and a love that rejoices with the truth. Jesus embodied this perfect love and truth for us so that we might be forgiven, healed, and empowered to love others with the love that God has shown to us at the cross of Jesus Christ.

   How do you respond when people sin against you? For most of us our first response to being sinned against is anger. But Paul tells us that love is not easily angered. And how do we keep people who have hurt us from hurting us again. Well for most of us we keep track of what they have done in order to protect ourselves from being hurt. But Paul tells us that love keeps no record of wrong. In this sermon we will consider what love does with our anger and how it is possible to truly forgive those who have hurt us deeply.

As Paul continues his description of what love is and is not, he comes to this little phrase, "love does not insist on its own way." In a world where we are constantly making decisions, how do we live in a way that considers more significant than ourselves? Listen and hear how the gospel fixes our eyes on the God who didn't insist on his own way for his own glory and our good.

There are times where you and I read God's word in the morning and then find that by the end of the day we can barely even remember what it is that we read. In this message we want to talk about what it looks like not to merely read God's Word but to truly engage with the living God through his Word. It is our prayer that this year all of us would truly get to know our great God better as we encounter him more in his word.

What are you ultimately living your life for? Would your daily rhythms and habits demonstrate that or something else? Listen and hear how the good news of how bright our future is gives us the grace to wait upon Jesus in ways that demonstrate that he is our greatest treasure.

Around Christmas time it’s not uncommon for us to do everything we can to ignore the darkness in this world in the hopes of enjoying the holidays. Of course we often find that trying to ignore the darkness leaves us feeling a little bit alone. But the truth is that Christmas has never been about ignoring the darkness or pretending that everything is OK. No, Christmas has always been about a light that shines so brightly in the darkness that the darkness cannot overcome it. In this message we will learn more about who this light is and how he came to save us.

What happens to the promises of God when we mess up? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Have you ever done something you never thought you would do and then found yourself wondering if God’s promises could possibly still be true for you, after all that you have done? In this message we will look at King David and consider what happened to the promises of God when he failed miserably. 

One of the great blessings of life are the relationships that God gives us. And yet one of life’s greatest tragedies is the way that distance and sin and death come and separate us from the people that we have grown to love. Of course these broken relationships and the pain that they bring us are only a shadow of our broken relationship with God and the suffering that it leads to. So what do we do? In this message we will look back at the priests in the Old Testament and consider how God used them to foreshadow an even greater priest and the way that he would come to reconcile us back to God and to fix all that we had broken.

      Long ago God promised Moses that one day he would raise up another prophet like him from among his brothers. The New Testament tells us that Jesus is that better prophet and that he has come from God to reveal to us the very heart of the Father. In this message we will consider what Jesus shows us about God and why it is so important that we Listen to him!

The LORD God will save a people for himself through his chosen Messiah Son and so we put our faith in him alone to save us from all that we have broken.

G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “Your life would be so much bigger if your self was smaller in it.” Here in I Corinthians 13 Paul beckons us to leave our own little worlds behind and embrace a life that desires and delights in the good of others. In this message we will consider the dangers of pride and all that our God has done to rescue us from it and set us free to enjoy a life of humble love.

Have you ever had someone tell you about something really good in their life, but for some reason you didn’t feel very happy about it? Envy is the distress that we feel over someone else’s success and it is something that all of us deal with. However, most of us are better at seeing envy in others than we are in ourselves. In this message we will look at the ways that envy often disguises itself as a desire for justice and we will consider some helpful ways to fight against it.

What is Love? In this message we will consider two attributes that Paul believes are absolutely vital to love. Love is patient and love is kind. While all of us are familiar with these words, we will be taking a closer look at what they really mean as well as considering why we sometimes find them so difficult to live out. We will also consider some of the ways that our God has been patient and kind to us.

How do love and sacrifice go together? Is it possible to love without sacrifice? What about sacrificing without love? If sacrifice is necessary to love, then how can we know for certain that it will be worth it? These are a few of the questions we will address in I Corinthians 13:3.

      As hard as you and I may try to use our unique giftedness in order to find our significance, the reality is that no one has ever truly found the significance they craved through the exercise of their gifts. No one, ever. In I Corinthians 13:1-2 Paul tells us why it is that we will never find the significance we crave through the exercise of our gifts but he also goes on to tell us the surprising place that it can be found. That is what this message is about. 

As we look deeper into this reality that we are all given individual gifts but function as one body, we must figure out how to avoid pride and envy, boasting and jealousy as we live together as the family of God. Listen and hear how the cost to Christ to give us these gifts actually unifies us in his own goal and purpose of giving his body these gifts.

      As a church how are we supposed to view those who are different from us? Do we conform in order to try and fit in? Do we divide in order to find people who are more like us? Do we compare and compete or do we simply try and ignore our differences in order to avoid conflict? In I Corinthians 12 Paul uses the analogy of the body to show us a better way to deal with our differences. 

How can you tell if the Holy Spirit is present at a gathering or even in your own life? Are there certain spiritual gifts that prove the presence of the Spirit? Are there things that should cause us to wonder if he is present? In I Corinthians 12:1-7 Paul lays out some criteria for discerning a true manifestation of the Holy Spirit. He also lays out a few basic truths about the Spiritual gifts that he doesn’t want the Corinthians to be confused about. While there are still a lot of things that Paul has yet to explain in this message we will try and lay out a few of the things that Paul wants to make very clear about the gifts of the Spirit.