Barry amplifies Paul's argument that the gift of prophecy is superior to the gift of tongues because it increases people's understanding of spiritual things, whereas tongues is unintelligible and should not be used in public meetings. Tongues bring advantage to the speaker's spiritual growth while everyone who prophesies speaks to men for their strengthening, encouragement and comfort.

Drew confronts us with the truth Paul puts to the Corinthians: that no matter how successful they appear, unless our ministries are built on love they are nothing and they achieve nothing.

Barry expounds Paul's discussion of Spiritual Gifts, explaining that all gifts are valuable and contribute to the body of God's people.

Barry explains the biblical basis for regularly giving money proportionally to income in support of Christian people and ministries.

Jon speaks about Paul's rebuke of the way that the Corinthian Church approached the Lord's Supper with the wrong attitudes. He considers what we declare in the manner we take Communion and cautions against forgetting that we eat and drink in thankful remembrance of the sacrifice of Christ, proclaiming our faith in his death as we do.

This week, Jon tackles a controversial passage in 1 Corinthians about Propriety in Worship and head coverings. Clothing and the attitudes people dress themselves with can send strong messages, for the Christian, these messages need to glorify their "head."

Returning to the series on 1 Corinthians, Jon explains that Christian freedoms shouldn't be put ahead of love, sharing the Gospel or glorifying God.

This week at 5PM there was a special guest service for the baptism and dedication of many of the children recently born to the congregation. Barry describes the way that the existence of God is revealed to mankind and that He is a God who is an interesting, holy and loving Father who invites us to come to Him.

Kicking off this quarterly prayer week, Barry examines the relationship between prayer and the gift of the Holy Spirit put forward in Luke. We can ask for the Holy Spirit and He will be given to us, bringing us the full experience of the love of God and applying His power to the works of evangelism that we carry out.

Barry continues to speak on Paul's warning to the Corinthians to flee from idolatry because it is attractive and dangerous. When we participate in the Lord's Supper, we put our faith in Jesus and our sins are cleansed by his blood, but when involved with idols, demonic influence can be encountered.