Playlist: Mending (topic)
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A Time to Tear
Sermon by Charles Whitaker (1944-2021)Mending is constructive, reparative, and restorative, the opposite of rending, which is ruinous and destructive. A torn garment loses its integrity and its ability to cover and protect, while mending restores it. Scripture uses the same imagery for kingdoms. God rends a kingdom away from a king, as with Solomon's idolatry and …
Themes of I Corinthians (Part 2)
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughIn I Corinthians 1:10 Paul pleads that the Corinthians be "perfectly joined together," a Greek word for mending or knitting together what has been rent or broken, like cloth repaired with needle and thread or a broken bone set so it knits and becomes usable again. The word "perfectly" means the repair must be complete, so that …