Kaleo Church Podcast

In this second sermon on beholding Christ's beauty, we will contemplate how that beauty leads to a changed life. Using Paul's statement in 3:18, we will look at Revelation 1-3 through that lens. Listen and hear how Christ's beauty transofrmed churches in the first century and continues to do so today. 

 In this passage, Paul reminds us just how serious a thing it is to dwell among immortals and seek to point them to Jesus. But who is sufficient for such a massive calling? Paul helps us answer this question by exposing some of the false places we look for confidence and then showing us where it is that our ultimate sufficiency is to be found.

We are all drawn to beauty. In a sense, beauty transforms us all. For followers of Jesus, this means that true transformation can only happen by beholding the pinnacle of beauty. Listen and hear how the gospel transforms us by beholding.Thanks!

One of the things that makes sharing the Gospel so difficult is the prospect of being rejected. Often, we spend a lot of energy trying to discern if people are ready to hear the Gospel or if they will be offended by it or if they are going to shut us down. We love sharing the Gospel with people who want to hear it, but we don’t see much good in sharing the Gospel with people who don’t seem very open. In this passage, Paul shows us that we are to share the Gospel without being controlled by how people respond. You see, the seeds of the Gospel were always intended to be planted in fields of rejection. 

Have you ever felt called to do something good for the glory of God only to find that something came up and ruined your plans? Why? Why does God allow the good plans that we have to fall through? In this message, we will consider how God wants us to respond when we find ourselves standing in the rubble of our broken plans.

Paul was more like you and I then we might think. In 2 Corinthians we see that Paul was overwhelmed, he struggled with despair, he experienced fear and anxiety and there was even a time where these things kept him from preaching the Gospel. Paul was a lot like us. And yet he was also different. What made Paul different was the way that he honestly shared his weaknesses and was not afraid to talk about his struggles. In this passage we will see how the Gospel sets us free to be honest, even about the things we are ashamed of.

Do you find yourself more likely to engage in conflict in order to pursue justice or to avoid conflict in order to protect yourself? Here we find that Paul shows us a third way. He spares the Corinthians justice, and yet he engages with them in a way that brings him a lot of pain in the hopes that God would use it to bring them to the joy that can only be found in repentance. Where did Paul learn this sort of love, and what gave him the courage to walk it out?ReplyReply allForwardAdd reaction

Conflict has been the source of some of our deepest wounds. So how are we supposed to respond to the people who have hurt us? Is there a way to engage in conflict that doesn’t end up rupturing our relationships and leaving us to lick our wounds alone? In 2 Corinthians Paul is going to model for us how to engage in healthy conflict with people who have hurt us. In this passage he will teach us about the danger of judging motives and arguing with people in our minds. In its place, Paul will call us to look for ways to spare our opponents and work with them for their joy instead of grasping for control in order to get justice

All of the promises of God toward us are Yes in Jesus Christ, and so through Jesus we respond with our Amen to God for his glory. An Amen we proclaim with our words and demonstrate with our lives. A life lived with integrity and faithfulness founded upon God's gospel promises and dependent on the power of the Holy Spirit.

Paul was so overwhelmed that he found himself despairing of life itself. But instead of hiding it or pretending that he was OK, Paul decided to be honest about his condition. In doing so, Paul showed us all that the church is the one place where it is OK to not be OK. He also shows us that God has a purpose for our fears and anxiety, a purpose for our despair and depression, a purpose for all of the things that overwhelm us and cause us to despair even of life itself.

If God is the God of all comfort, then what does it mean that we are suffering? Does it mean that something is broken between us and God? Not according to Paul. In this passage, Paul describes his suffering as “sharing with Christ in his pain” and describes the way that our God is able to comfort us even in the midst of our greatest suffering.

The Word of God is powerful enough to transform the unrepentant and hard-hearted into thriving and beautiful new creations. Listen and hear how the gospel can truly transform the most cursed things into the most God-glorifying things. 

 It is not uncommon for people to project the way others are treating them onto God. We assume that if our parents are sick of us or if our spouses find us difficult to be around, or if our roommates don’t enjoy us anymore, then God probably feels similarly. But the reality is that nothing could be further from the truth. You see, when it comes to love, our God isn’t anything like us. When it comes to love our God is a natural. You see, God is love, and all love comes from him, and anytime we end up getting love right, it is because God loved us first. These are some of the things we will talk about in this message.  

There is a difference between being hungry and lost and being hungry while waiting for food you know is on its way. When we know that food is coming, the hunger that was once so frustrating can be transformed into a reason for joy. In this message, we will discuss how hope can infuse joy in the midst of our hunger.

Often, in the midst of suffering or personal failure, it is not uncommon to begin to wonder if God is really for us. Throughout the Old Testament, we see that from Adam on, even the best of people had times when they felt like God was against them. This war with God came to a climax when God sent his Only Son only to watch people murder him. In this sermon, we will discuss how it is that we often function as if we are at war with God, and we will discuss the peace that Jesus came to offer us. Our hope is that by the end of this message, we will find ourselves overwhelmed with the reality that our God is really FOR his people.

What makes hope so important? And how are we supposed to keep ourselves from losing hope in a world of disappointment? These are a few of the questions we will try to answer in this Christmas message about hope.

Gratitude isn’t just something God commands in order to ensure that he gets the credit he deserves, gratitude actually enables us to slow down and extract more joy from the good things that we have been given in life. In this message, we will discuss some reasons for gratitude that remain true in both the best and worst times of our lives. Ultimately, the steadfast love of the Lord endures forever, and that is something worth being thankful for!