Pastor James teaches at the Holt Venue from 2 Corinthians 13:1-13: This is the third time I am coming to you. Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. I gave a warning when I was present the second time, and now I give a warning while I am absent to those who sinned before and to all the rest: If I come again, I will not be lenient, since you seek proof of Christ speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but powerful among you. For he was crucified i...
Jul 07, 2024•32 min•Ep. 245
Pastor Noel teaches from 2 Corinthians 12:11-21 I have been a fool; you forced it on me. You ought to have commended me, since I am not in any way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing. The signs of an apostle were performed with unfailing endurance among you, including signs and wonders and miracles. So in what way are you worse off than the other churches, except that I personally did not burden you? Forgive me for this wrong! Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians Look, I a...
Jun 30, 2024•31 min•Ep. 244
Pastor Justin teaches at the REO Town Venue from 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 Boasting is necessary. It is not profitable, but I will move on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who was caught up to the third heaven fourteen years ago. Whether he was in the body or out of the body, I don’t know; God knows. I know that this man — whether in the body or out of the body I don’t know; God knows — was caught up into paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a human being is no...
Jun 24, 2024•41 min•Ep. 243
Tyler St. Clair, Pastor at Cornerstone Church in Detroit, teaches at the Westside Venue on 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 Boasting is necessary. It is not profitable, but I will move on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who was caught up to the third heaven fourteen years ago. Whether he was in the body or out of the body, I don’t know; God knows. I know that this man — whether in the body or out of the body I don’t know; God knows — was caught up into paradise and heard inex...
Jun 24, 2024•44 min•Ep. 242
Jordan Allen teaches from 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 at our Holt Venue Boasting is necessary. It is not profitable, but I will move on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who was caught up to the third heaven fourteen years ago. Whether he was in the body or out of the body, I don’t know; God knows. I know that this man — whether in the body or out of the body I don’t know; God knows — was caught up into paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a human being is not all...
Jun 23, 2024•32 min•Ep. 241
Pastor Noel teaches from 2 Corinthians 11:16-33: I repeat: Let no one consider me a fool. But if you do, at least accept me as a fool so that I can also boast a little. What I am saying in this matter of boasting, I don’t speak as the Lord would, but as it were, foolishly. Since many boast according to the flesh, I will also boast. For you, being so wise, gladly put up with fools! In fact, you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if ...
Jun 17, 2024•30 min•Ep. 240
Pastor Noel teaches from 2 Corinthians 11:1-15: I wish you would put up with a little foolishness from me. Yes, do put up with me! For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband — to present a pure virgin to Christ. But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if a person comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or you receive a differ...
Jun 09, 2024•37 min•Ep. 239
Noel teaches from 2 Corinthians 10:7-18: Look at what is obvious. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, let him remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we. For if I boast a little too much about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be put to shame. I don’t want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters. For it is said, “His letters are weighty and powerful, but his physical presence is w...
Jun 03, 2024•33 min•Ep. 238
Hezekiah Trevino teaches at our REO Town Venue from 2 Corinthians 10:1-6 Now I, Paul, myself, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ — I who am humble among you in person but bold toward you when absent. I beg you that when I am present I will not need to be bold with the confidence by which I plan to challenge certain people who think we are living according to the flesh. For although we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh, since the weapons of our warfa...
May 28, 2024•31 min•Ep. 237
Pastor Steve Sommerlot teaches at our Westside Venue from 2 Corinthians 10:1-6 Now I, Paul, myself, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ — I who am humble among you in person but bold toward you when absent. I beg you that when I am present I will not need to be bold with the confidence by which I plan to challenge certain people who think we are living according to the flesh. For although we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh, since the weapons of our...
May 28, 2024•40 min•Ep. 236
Pastor James Granger teaches at our Holt Venue from 2 Corinthians 10:1-6: Now I, Paul, myself, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ — I who am humble among you in person but bold toward you when absent. I beg you that when I am present I will not need to be bold with the confidence by which I plan to challenge certain people who think we are living according to the flesh. For although we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh, since the weapons of our warf...
May 27, 2024•34 min•Ep. 235
Pastor Justin Detmers teaches at our REO Town Venue from 2 Corinthians 9:1-15: Now concerning the ministry to the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you. For I know your eagerness, and I boast about you to the Macedonians, “Achaia has been ready since last year,” and your zeal has stirred up most of them. But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter would not prove empty, and so that you would be ready just as I said. Otherwise, if any Macedonians come wi...
May 21, 2024•43 min•Ep. 234
Pastor Tony teaches at our Westside Venue from 2 Corinthians 9:1-15: Now concerning the ministry to the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you. For I know your eagerness, and I boast about you to the Macedonians, “Achaia has been ready since last year,” and your zeal has stirred up most of them. But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter would not prove empty, and so that you would be ready just as I said. Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and ...
May 20, 2024•40 min•Ep. 233
Our Pastoral Resident, Hezekiah Trevino, teaches at our Holt Venue from 2 Corinthians 9:1-15: Now concerning the ministry to the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you. For I know your eagerness, and I boast about you to the Macedonians, “Achaia has been ready since last year,” and your zeal has stirred up most of them. But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter would not prove empty, and so that you would be ready just as I said. Otherwise, if any Mace...
May 19, 2024•38 min•Ep. 232
Pastor Noel teaches from 2 Corinthians 8:16-24 Get a copy of the Entrust Update Thanks be to God, who put the same concern for you into the heart of Titus. For he welcomed our appeal and, being very diligent, went out to you by his own choice. We have sent with him the brother who is praised among all the churches for his gospel ministry. And not only that, but he was also appointed by the churches to accompany us with this gracious gift that we are administering for the glory of the Lord himsel...
May 12, 2024•37 min•Ep. 231
Pastor Noel teaches from 2 Corinthians 8:1-15 We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that was given to the churches of Macedonia: During a severe trial brought about by affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. I can testify that, according to their ability and even beyond their ability, of their own accord, they begged us earnestly for the privilege of sharing in the ministry to the saints, and not jus...
May 05, 2024•38 min•Ep. 230
Noel teaches from 2 Corinthians 7:11-16 as we continue in our Cruciformed series. For consider how much diligence this very thing — this grieving as God wills — has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter. So even though I wrote to you, it was not because of the one who did wrong, or because of the one who was wronged, but in order that your devotion t...
Apr 28, 2024•32 min•Ep. 229
Noel teaches from 2 Corinthians 7:2-10 Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, corrupted no one, taken advantage of no one. I don’t say this to condemn you, since I have already said that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. I am very frank with you; I have great pride in you. I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in all our afflictions. In fact, when we came into Macedonia, we had no rest. Instead, we were troubled in every way: confl...
Apr 21, 2024•34 min•Ep. 228
Pastor Tony teaches at our Westside Venue from 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1 Do not be yoked together with those who do not believe. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, as God said: I will dwell and walk among them, and ...
Apr 14, 2024•40 min•Ep. 227
Pastor James teaches at our Holt and REO Town Venues on 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1 Do not be yoked together with those who do not believe. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, as God said: I will dwell and walk among t...
Apr 14, 2024•34 min•Ep. 226
Pastor Noel teaches from 2 Corinthians 6:3-13: We are not giving anyone an occasion for offense, so that the ministry will not be blamed. Instead, as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardships, by difficulties, by beatings, by imprisonments, by riots, by labors, by sleepless nights, by times of hunger, by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of truth, by the power of God; throug...
Apr 08, 2024•32 min•Ep. 225
Pastor Justin Detmers teaches from our REO Town Venue this Easter from 2 Corinthians 5:16-6:2 From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is...
Apr 01, 2024•29 min•Ep. 224
Pastor Tony Pyle teaches at our Easter service at our Westside Venue from 2 Corinthians 5:16-6:2: From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. Tha...
Apr 01, 2024•36 min•Ep. 223
On Easter Sunday, Noel preaches at the Holt Venue from 2 Corinthians 5:16-6:2 From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is, in Christ, God...
Apr 01, 2024•29 min•Ep. 222
Pastor Noel teaches on The Heart of an Evangelistic Church from 2 Corinthians 5:11-15: Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your consciences. We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in outward appearance rather than in the heart. For if we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are in our r...
Mar 24, 2024•34 min•Ep. 221
Hezekiah Trevino teaches from 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 at our REO Town Venue: "For we know that if our earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands. Indeed, we groan in this tent, desiring to put on our heavenly dwelling, since, when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. Indeed, we groan while we are in this tent, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality may be swallow...
Mar 19, 2024•38 min•Ep. 220
Pastor Tony teaches from 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 at our Westside Venue. "For we know that if our earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands. Indeed, we groan in this tent, desiring to put on our heavenly dwelling, since, when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. Indeed, we groan while we are in this tent, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality may be swallowed up...
Mar 19, 2024•38 min•Ep. 219
Brad Kidder is the pastor at River City Church in Grand Rapids, MI. He joins us to teach from 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 River City Church "For we know that if our earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands. Indeed, we groan in this tent, desiring to put on our heavenly dwelling, since, when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. Indeed, we groan while we are in this tent, burdened as we are, because we do not want to...
Mar 19, 2024•39 min•Ep. 218
Noel's message from March 10, 2024, teaching on 2 Corinthians 4:7-18: Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us. We are afflicted in every way but not crushed; we are perplexed but not in despair; we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed. We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our body. For we who live are always being given over to death for...
Mar 10, 2024•35 min•Ep. 217
This week, Pastor Noel teaches from 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 Therefore, since we have this ministry because we were shown mercy, we do not give up. Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting deceitfully or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth. But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep ...
Mar 04, 2024•36 min•Ep. 216
