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In this series from 2007, Pastor Mark is taking us on a 33-week journey through 1st Corinthians

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dot org slash give. Thank you again and enjoy this message from 1st Corinthians.

Father God, we start by acknowledging

and celebrating the fact that there is one God,

that you are God, that you are our God, that you are a loving God, that you're a good God,

and that you are mindful of us.

And we thank you for sending the Lord Jesus to live without sin, to die, to rise, to minister to us. And Jesus, we thank you for

sending the Holy Spirit to make us Christians to empower us for new life, to gift us for ministry and service. And so as we study tonight we ask you

Holy Spirit to come and minister to us, to reveal to us Jesus so that we might

do ministry like he did that glorifies God to Father. We ask

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