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                    1 Corinthians 16:1-4 The Listen Link: http://www.firstcovenantcadillac.org/#!this-weeks-sermon/c20mw Don’t you just love fundraisers? Do you see now that the Christian Church has been doing it since the beginning? Of course, we’re not the only ones. I learned that even in Corinth the Greeks and Jews had ways of caring for the poor by asking the wealthier members of each community to pitch in and help out the less fortunate. Paul would want the Christians, filled with the Holy Spirit and the love of God, to show themselves to be even more compassionate than the unbelievers around them. This collection was taken up on behalf of the Church in Jerusalem that was struggling with poverty for reasons such as a local famine and the persecution of Christians that made them ineligible for help from the synagogue led relief efforts

1 Corinthians 15:34-58 Now you can also listen here! http://www.firstcovenantcadillac.org/#!this-weeks-sermon/c20mw This has been a pretty rough couple of weeks. In fact the whole year so far has been too busy with more than our fair share of funerals.  But that is really why I am very glad that God in his planning, has us on these resurrection texts these past two weeks. Our best defense against the pain and sorrow of death is to remember that it is not as final as it appears to be. Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ and becomes nothing more than a necessary gateway to a new and immortal life! Our good shepherd leads us through this valley of the shadow of death and onto glory! Although I wanted you to hear the triumphant conclusion first, thank you Michelle, in today’s longer text we cover several more issues related to our resurrection, which is granted to those who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and live to obey him as his disciples. So

1 Corinthians 15:12-33 I wish Phil Raker were here today. That’s because my sermon title is actually a triple pun. Can you figure it out? First of all, I will be speaking of a number of things Paul brought up in this text, matters having to do with resurrection; resurrection matters. Second of all, I will be sharing Paul’s point that it really matters to us that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead; resurrection matters! The third meaning in my pun has to do with the Biblical truth that the resurrection of the dead is a physical resurrection, to the material world; resurrection matters because it is about matter! And guess what, I actually sent an e-mail to Phil on Thursday to see if he could figure it out and he did! In exactly the same order I just gave you. He put it this way: 1. You're talking about the things of resurrection - those could be referred to as "resurrection matters". 2. Resurrection makes a difference - it matters. 3. Our eventual resurrection wil