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This week we're covering Joshua 5:1-12.
Too many of us live our lives in a way where what we say is most important to us gets the least amount of our time, energy, and attention. It certainly doesn't get our first and best. And that is...
This week's sermon covers Joshua 3-4 and is called, "Don't Forget to Remember." God leads Joshua and the nation into the Promised Land, and he does so by miraculously stopping the flow of the Jordan River at flood stage. This...
This week we are covering Joshua 2 in a sermon called, "Saved through Faith." Because Joshua believes they will have to take Jericho through conventional warfare, he sends two spies to scope out the land and the city's defenses so they...
This weekend we begin our new series through the Book of Joshua, "Courageous Faith." The sermon will cover chapter 1 and is called, "The Quest for Rest."
After 400 years in slavery and 40 years wandering the desert, the...
Over the past three weeks, we've sought to answer the question, “Who Is the Christ?” We saw he was born of a virgin, fully God, and fully man. On Good Friday, we'll remember his substitutionary death on the cross. But if Jesus isn’t raised...
Very few people today are going to question whether Jesus was fully human. Plenty of people questioned his full humanity back in the day, but not really anymore. Why does the humanity of Jesus matter? Unless Jesus was fully human, he could not save us...
This week we continue our series leading up to Easter entitled "Who is the Christ?" and learn that Jesus is fully God.
This week we start a new series entitled "Who is the Christ?" focusing on the person of Jesus in preparation for Easter. This week we cover the virgin birth.
This Sunday we wrap-up our long "Messy Church" series with 2 Corinthians 13:1-14 in a message entitled, "The Final Test" Paul is about to come to Corinth for the third time, but there are still people in the church who are living...
This week's sermon is called "Spend and Be Spent" and covers 2 Corinthians 12:11-21. The truth is, we spend our time, money, and energy on whatever we believe to be valuable. For Paul, there was nothing more valuable than the glory of...
No one naturally embraces his or her weaknesses. We try to hide them, deny them, and run from them. We don't want anyone else to know we have them.
But our weaknesses are the things God uses to highlight his strength and his grace. Our...
Paul's critics pointed to his suffering as evidence that he wasn't really an apostle of Jesus Christ. They, like many modern teachers today (there's nothing new under the sun), believed that true apostles and true believers' lives...
This week's sermon covers 2 Corinthians 11:7-15 and is called, "Exalting Others by Humbling Ourselves." Paul was under fire, strangely enough, for not accepting financial compensation for his ministry from the Corinthians. Instead, he...
This week's message covers 2 Corinthians 11:1-6 and is called, "Don't Be Led Astray." The Corinthians were being tempted by Satan through the false teachers, and were in danger of walking away from Christ and the Gospel. Paul, as a...
Since the Garden of Eden, we’ve been in the middle of a spiritual war. This war isn’t against flesh & blood, and this war can’t be fought or won with the weapons of this world. Paul understood that, so when his ministry came under attack in...
In his conclusion, Solomon will cover three of our biggest fears - fear of the unknown, fear of the aging process, and fear of man. We'll learn that if we fear the Lord, we have nothing else to fear.
In Ecclesiastes 9 we learn what is means to lament and hope in the hands of God even in the face of death.
We'll learn how to Reflect on the brokenness of our world, Rejoice in the many blessings of our lives and Rest in the absolute sovereignty of our God
In Ecclesiastes 3 we discover that our longing for God, eternity and the world to be renewed is set in our hearts by God and that he is the only one who can fulfill this longing.
Our author, presumably Solomon, will note that all in the world is vanity, a chasing after the wind. He sees this illustrated in the natural cycles of the earth - sunrise and sunset, prevailing winds, and the water cycle.
He knows that all is vain...
This week we see that God equips his church with faithful servants and faithful stewards.
In the passage, Paul begins one of the greatest extended teachings we find in Scripture on the subject of giving, which leads us to greater freedom and joy if we'll hear and apply it to our lives.
We'll learn that out of gratitude for...
This week's message is called "Good Grief" and covers 2 Corinthians 7:2-16. In this passage, Paul will explain the difference between good grief (which he calls “godly grief”) and bad grief (which he calls “worldly...
Paul reminds us that we need to be clean externally and internally so we can enjoy true fellowship with God and one another.
We'll learn that because we are God's temple, we must joyfully pursue holiness.
In this section of Scripture, we see that how we go about the ministry of reconciliation will either help or hinder our Gospel witness. Paul and his companions understood this, so by the grace of God, they sought to ensure that no one could find fault...
We'll see that we've been given the message and ministry of reconciliation and are called to be faithful ambassadors for God. The main point: "Compelled by the love of Christ, we implore others to be reconciled to God."
This week we learn that God has prepared a heavenly dwelling and that they way we live now can be influenced by looking forward to the future reality of the resurrection of the body.
In this text, Paul honestly addresses the difficult circumstances he and his team face, but he sees his situation through the lens of the Gospel. We will learn that when we view this life in light of eternity, we can face our circumstances with faith.
As we've learned, Paul and his team faced a great deal of adversity – not just from unbelieving Jews and Gentiles, but even from professing Christians in the churches they planted. It would have been easy for them to get discouraged and throw in...
Paul certainly believed that freedom is a wonderful thing. The problem is that the way most people define and pursue freedom actually leads to bondage. That's what happens when people teach that Christians needed to submit to the Old Covenant...
Things weren't looking great for Paul - he had been rejected at Corinth, opposed in Ephesus, and was overcome with anxiety in Troas. It certainly didn't seem like his ministry was being blessed by God.
His opponents in Corinth...
Last week, we saw that the Corinthians were upset with Paul because he hadn’t come to visit them after he said he would. Some accused him of vacillating and lacking integrity, especially after he sent them an emotional letter calling them to...
Broken promises make people upset because we were created in God’s image, and God never lies. Hardwired into us is an assumption that people mean what they say, that they’ll do what they promise.
But some of the Corinthians were upset with Paul...
We learn that suffering is not outside of God's control and that there is purpose in our suffering.
We'll see that we must learn the secret of contentment, trusting God to supply every need.
Our lives are marked by anxiety, worry, uncertainty for a variety of reasons. Paul will teach us that if we want to experience the peace of God, we have to exercise obedient faith in the God of peace. That involves pursuing unity with other believers...
This week we take a look at the back half of Philippians 3 and discover that Christians have been made citizens of heaven by God and therefore should live as citizens of heaven on earth.
We learn that God is in process of forming and shaping us into his people and that this process requires humility and action.
Many of us can articulate a biblical theology of suffering. But functionally, we fail to live out what we say we believe. We ask questions like, "Why me? What did I do wrong to deserve this?" instead of seeing our suffering through...
We launch our new series through the book of Philippians as learn how Christians can have joy in uncertain times.
In this parable we learn what it looks like to demonstrate faithfulness to Christ in our stewardship.
This week, we look at the parable of the faithful servant and learn what it looks like to remain faithful in doing the work of the Lord in light of Jesus' return.
When we began the series, we learned that all churches are messy, but God is in the business of transforming messy churches into beautiful displays of his glory. At the end of the letter, Paul challenges the Corinthians in three ways: (1) To do the...
For hundreds of years, uncertainty was simply accepted as part of life. But our lives, in many ways, seem very certain and stable. This spring has destroyed many of those illusions.
In 1 Corinthians 16, Paul deals with the uncertainty brought...
Death was undefeated before Easter, and has been undefeated since. Thankfully, Jesus will return one day soon, and when he does, death will be defeated again - this time forever. We'll learn that through Christ, God gives us eternal victory over...
Many people wonder what heaven will be like, and seek answers (true or false, helpful or unhelpful) to that question. Far fewer people ask what we will be like in the afterlife. Thankfully, Paul doesn't leave us to wonder, as God reveals through...
Paul is going to do some basic logic with the Corinthians – who, keep in mind, live in Greece – the home of Artistotle and Plato and many other great philosophers who were pioneers in the field of logic. He will help them see what would be true if...
On Easter Sunday, we learn about the transforming nature of the Gospel and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus that makes it all possible.
Last week we learned that no matter how gifted we are, we are nothing and gain nothing if we don't use our gifts in love. But love alone isn't enough to build up the body; for that to happen, we have to hear and understand the Word of...
We'll learn that without Christlike love, all signs, knowledge, and sacrifice are nothing.
In the 2nd half of 1st Corinthians 12 we learn that we are one body in Christ with various useful gifts that should not cause division but rather build up the Church and one another.
Taking a look at the second time Paul addresses the Lord's Supper, we will focus on what it means to take the Lord's Supper in an unworthy manner, and how the Supper is a picture of unity only afforded to us in the Gospel.
We'll be talking about the fact that gender isn't only or even primarily a social construct, but something that is assigned to us by God. As a result, it is imperative that we live as men and women according to God's definition of what...
We'll learn that for the glory of God, we must love our neighbors by laying down our rights.
The Corinthians, who had seen great things but undoubtedly far less than the Israelites, were overconfident. They believed they were standing firm, even though many of them were regularly going with friends and family members to pagan worship...
We'll be talking more about laying down our rights, but looking at things from a slightly different angle this week - in particular, laying down our rights to become all things to all men so that by all means we can win some to Christ.
Sadly, Paul's authority as an apostle had come under fire from some in the Corinthian church. Ironically, they seemed to be questioning his authority at least in part because he didn't act like other itinerant speakers - he didn't...
To conclude our topical series on generosity we will learn 4 enduring principles of giving as found in scripture. They are:
God's people reap what they sow. God loves a cheerful giver. God enriches us to enable generosity. God is glorified...
This Sunday, we learn that the Gospel empowers us to give gracefully in spite of our circumstances as an act of worship.
This week we learn that we are to be focused and faithful stewards of all God has entrusted to us in light of the Lord's coming return.
Jesus follows up the parable of the rich fool by teaching that we do not have to worry about the future or how we'll pay for it because we have a loving heavenly Father who promises to care for us, just as he does for the birds and flowers...
We'll be looking at the parable of the rich fool, which reveals the folly of storing up treasure on earth against the wisdom of storing up treasure in heaven.
May God use it to help us honestly evaluate our self-sufficiency, selfishness, and...
Many of us aren't as generous as we should be - and some of us aren't generous at all - because we're motivated by guilt rather than grace.
We've been told all our lives that we should share because not sharing is mean, but...
Join us this week as we look into 1st Corinthians 8 and how Paul addresses the issues of Christian freedom, love and unity in the Church.
With the present world passing away, we learn that we must give God our undivided devotion in singleness and marriage.
Christians, like all people, are haunted by the greener grass conspiracy - that something else is better than what we have. We feel this in our relationships, in our religious practice, and in our jobs. Many Christians even start to believe that God...
This week we learn that marriage and singleness are gifts from God that we must receive with holiness and humility.
In the first half of chapter six, Paul has explained that believers are washed, sanctified, and justified through faith in the person and work of Jesus. By the grace of God, we are not who we were!
But the Corinthians were just like us, and they...
The problems in Corinth weren't much different than the problems we face as believers today - there is a constant temptation to deal with situations in our lives just like non-Christians (like suing one another over petty things, or sinning in...
Guest preacher Steve Doyle explains the ground, goal and gain of missions efforts as seen in 3rd John.
This week we learn that part of being a messy church means enacting church discipline when necessary for the church's sanctification and glory of the Lord. Church discipline is difficult, but it is worth it.
Imitation is seen as the sincerest form of flattery, and it's also seen as annoying in some contexts. But imitation is one of the ways we learn anything in life - from sports to art to music to learning to speak.
The problem in Corinth was...
On God's team, there are no superstars - just role players completing their assignments. Paul planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. Paul laid a foundation, and other teachers are building on it. Every player is just doing his...
Paul has just reminded the Corinthians that he didn't rely on human wisdom or gimmicks of any kind when he came to Corinth - he simply proclaimed Jesus Christ and him crucified. And he did so in the power of the Holy Spirit, relying on him to...
We learn that as the people of God we are to be heralds of the Good News. Our job is to present the King's message to the King's people without distortion or distraction.
We are constantly tempted to change the message of the Gospel to win the approval of others because we fear man. We are afraid of being thought of as fools, and we are tempted to be embarrassed of the foolishness of the Gospel.
However, in the...
Paul dives into the first major problem facing the Corinthian, which was division - and specifically, division over the human leaders they followed (or didn't follow). Three groups centered around Paul, Apollos, and Peter, while one group...
As we launch our new series for the year, "Messy Church: 1st Corinthians", we will be introduced to the church in Corinth and we will be reminded that although every church is messy, God is in the business of transforming messy churches into...
The scribes and Pharisees are grumbling because Jesus "receives sinners and eats with them." As a result, Jesus speaks three parables on lostness.
We'll consider our calling, as Jesus' disciples, to be under-shepherds for the...
Many people today, including many professing Christians, no longer believe in the reality of Hell. Many others would say they aren't sure if Hell exists.
Naturally, if you don't believe in Hell, or you're not entirely sure people...
As we start a 3-week series entitled, "Who's Your One?", we'll learn about what it truly means to be a disciple of Jesus and what that means for how we should tell others about Him.
This week in Psalm 148 we learn that all of creation praises God and that we too are called to worship the Creator and not creation.
This week we look at Psalm 136 - a Psalm of thanksgiving. By remembering who God is, what He has done, is doing and will do, we can cultivate thankful and worshipful hearts regardless of our circumstances.
This week we look at Psalm 96 and learn how Jesus, as the true and coming King, is worthy of all praise and worship.
Sometimes, we feel sad, lonely, forgotten. Some people feel that way often because of depression, or other causes. But all of us feel that way at times. Thankfully, God's Word gives perfect expression to our feelings, providing us a way to...
This week, we take a look at Psalm 35 - an imprecatory Psalm. As Christians, we are called to love and pray for our enemies. We also know that God is a God of justice who cares for and protects His people against those who wish them harm. We'll...
We'll be reminded that the war between the kingdom of self and the Kingdom of God has been raging ever since our first parents Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden....and the war continues to rage in our hearts and in our world today. God promises...
This weekend we begin our new summer series - "Steadfast: Psalms for All Seasons"
We'll begin our study with Psalm 1, the great "wisdom Psalm," where we'll learn that there are just two paths to take in life. One is...
This week we wrap-up the Book of Esther, focusing on Haman. The title is, "Deadly Pride: Haman." In contrast to the active faith of Mordecai and Esther, Haman display a deadly pride that leads to destruction - the same deadly pride that...
Esther becomes the mediator the Jews need, but her victory is only temporary. The Jews - and all of God's covenant, chosen people in history - needed a better Mediator than Esther, one who could Mediate between us and God permanently and...
This week we begin our 3-week study of Esther called "Living Faith," which will focus on Mordecai, Esther, and Haman.
The first sermon is called, "Living Faith: Mordecai," and we'll focus mostly on chapters 2, 3, and 4...
As we've seen, Nehemiah is a courageous leader, a godly leader, a great leader. But in spite of his great leadership (and Ezra's before him), the people just can't remain faithful to God over the long haul.
It's almost like...
When we think of the Christian life today, sacrifice isn't the first thing that comes to mind for most American Christians. We think of faith, hope, love, even repentance. But we don't often think of sacrifice, perhaps because many of us...
We'll be covering 1 Corinthians 15:12-28 and learn that Jesus' resurrection is our hope at Easter and for eternity.
After confessing their sins, the people of Israel "make a firm covenant in writing" to observe and obey all of God's Law that he revealed to Moses. As we all must do, they make specific application referring to certain parts of the Law...
The people gather again to worship God, but this time the primary purpose is to pray - to praise God, to confess their sins, and to petition him. The main feature is confession, where the people are acknowledging God's great faithfulness and...
We'll learn that the believing community must be built on the firm foundation of God's Word.
The wall is finished, but the wall wasn't ever the end goal for Nehemiah - or for God. The wall was to surround the city, which was literally and figuratively a city on a hill. God's desire from the very beginning was a people for his own...
In this text Nehemiah is sending a letter to those who have been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon during the first siege of the city. The exiles of that day are called to actively wait in Babylon and seek the Lord's redemption.
For us as...
In this text, Nehemiah's adversaries display relentless opposition - seeking to distract him from the work, then seeking to kill him, then seeking to have the king kill him as a traitor. The chapter even ends with references to the fact that the...
At the Outset of Chapter 5: the wall still isn’t complete; it’s about halfway rebuilt. Nehemiah and the Jews are still facing opposition from their enemies – Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem are doing all they can to stop the rebuilding.
That...
After casting the vision and calling everyone to join him in the work, the people now start rebuilding the walls and gates of Jerusalem. It serves as a perfect illustration of building God's kingdom, so we're going to look at three aspects...
Looking at Nehemiah's interaction with the king, we see that faith-filled action follows faith-filled asking.
This week we look at Nehemiah's response to the crisis in Jerusalem and learn that what we believe about God and ourselves will determine how we respond in times of crisis.
In this passage, Nehemiah learns that 140 years after the fall of Jerusalem, its walls and gates are still broken down and burned with fire. Despite rebuilding and reopening the temple some 70 years ago, despite all the spiritual reforms instituted by...
Join us for part 2 of our two-week series in 1 Samuel 25 as we learn about biblical submission.
This Sunday marks week 1 of our 2 week study of God's providence. This week, we take a look at 1 Samuel 25 and learn 5 lessons about God's providence.
The week we look at Ephesians 1 and the roles of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in our salvation and preservation.
This week we read John 1:1-18 and learn about the glory and graciousness of God shown in the Incarnation.
This week we wrap-up our 2-week series on the Lord's Supper. Last week, Pastor Beau helped us understand the nature of the Lord's Supper; this week, we'll answer the question, "How must we observe the Lord's...
This Sunday, we start our 2 part series on the Lord's Supper and discuss the proper elements that Christ instituted in the Passover meal with the disciples.
This week we will look at Acts 9:19-31 and examine Paul's conversion and how God uses solitude, suffering and seasoning in our lives to make us more like Jesus.
This week we will finish our Ezra series with 10:1-44 in a sermon called, "Jesus, Our True Temple."
Last week, Ezra learned that the people had sinned against God by marrying foreign women who led them into idolatry. It wasn't their...
Over the 60 years since the people returned and completed the temple, many of the Israelites - especially the priests and Levites - had disregarded God's Laws and married their unbelieving neighbors.
There are certainly many reasons they did...
This week's sermon covers Ezra 8 and is called, "The Blessing of Costly Obedience." It follows up last week's sermon on the blessings of obedience nicely, helping us to see that our obedience - which is blessed by God - is often...
The year is now 458BC, and roughly 60 years have passed since the temple was completed in 516BC. Our main human character, Ezra, finally enters the story at this point. He is used by God in powerful ways: three times during this chapter, we see that...
We've done a good job recognizing, training, and commissioning missionaries as a church. But to be effective over the long-run, we've got to ensure they are supported well. We'll learn:
Effective missionary work requires a vibrant...
After Darius commanded his officials not only to allow the Jews to finish rebuilding the temple, but to finance the whole operation, the work wrapped up quickly.
Once the temple was completed, the people held a great celebration and worshiped God...
In this sermon, we look at Ezra 6 and see the providence of God in the bringing about of the rebuilding of the Temple by the decrees of pagan kings and government record-keeping.
This week's sermon covers Ezra 5:1-17 and is called, "Trust in Action." It's been 16 years since the foundation of the temple was laid, but the people stopped working due to the opposition they faced.
Their circumstances...
After the exiles finished laying the foundation of the temple, they experienced opposition from the people around them. The opposition was private and informal, taking the form of discouragement, fear, and obstruction.
Today, the opposition becomes...
After laying the foundation, the exiles continue the work of rebuilding the temple. However, they encounter opposition from the people around them who don't want them to obey God's commands.
Jesus promised us that we would be persecuted...
After about 70 years in exile with no opportunities to worship, the people are eager to reestablish corporate worship back in the Promised Land. We'll highlight several important observations: They reinstitute worship even before they begin work...
This chapter is basically a big list of everyone who returned from Babylon to Jerusalem when King Cyrus gave them his permission to return home and rebuild the temple. As you read the chapter, you realize that there's nothing extraordinary about...
This week we began our new series, "Renewed Worship: The Book of Ezra." We will cover all of Ezra 1 in a message called, "God is in Control!" This book begins where 2 Chronicles leaves off. The year is 538BC, and King Cyrus of...
This week we have a topical vision message for us as we get ready to kick off another school year. We'll be covering Colossians 1:15-29. We learned that to make mature disciples of all nations, we must proclaim Christ in the power of God.
This Sunday we wrapped up our summer series in 1-3 John with the third inspired letter of John. The message will cover all of 3 John and is called, "Fellow Workers for the Truth." We see a contrast between two church leaders – one who...
Foundations are really important - if you don't have a solid foundation, everything you build on top of it will crumble. Jesus taught us to build on a firm foundation in his life and ministry, but many people are building their lives on shifting...
Editors Note: This is a re-recording of the sermon from 7/29/18 Seven different times in the passage, John will use the word "know." He wants his readers to know what is true, so they will believe what is true. But even more than that...
Because God is love, and Christians abide in God, we must also abide in love. However, every single one of us struggles to love other believers. It’s only when we surrender to God’s love for us that we begin to be free to walk in love toward other...
As has been stated in previous sermons, 1 John has a spiraling structure—revisiting the same themes over and over, each time amplifying them further. In this epistle John has given us moral tests (e.g., Are we obedient to God's word?), social...
Last week, John refuted “antichrists” and their teaching, and helped ensure that his readers - and you and me - would continue to abide in Christ. This week, we will see that John appeals to 3 aspects of God’s relationship to His People to make his...
Last week, John warned us that the world is passing away, along with its desires. Now, John tells us that we aren't just living in the last days, but the last hour. And in the last hour, opposition has come in the form of false teachers who...
We saw last week that the identifying mark of a true disciple of Jesus is a person who not only follows Christ's commands, but loves his/her brother or sister. This week, John gives a very strong warning to Christ's disciples not to love the...
We saw last week that we know we are Jesus' disciples if we obey his commands. John will continue to press the issue of assurance of salvation this week, this time connecting following Jesus and love for others. We learned that our love for...
So far, we've learned that God is light, and has no darkness in him. Further, we saw that Jesus’ blood is sufficient to cleanse all those who confess their sins to God. It becomes clear from the outset of the letter that Jesus is the Savior –...
We are continuing our new sermon series "Walk this Way" with 1 John 1:5-10 in a sermon called "Walk in the Light." The Apostle John is responding to the false claims that a believer can live without sin in their lives. We will see...
This week we started our new series through the letters of John called, "Walk this Way." On Sunday, we will covered 1 John 1:1-4 in a sermon called, "The Joy of Fellowship." Because of our sin, we are alienated from God and each...
This Sunday we had the pleasure of commissioning one short-term team and two families to the mission field. This sermon goes through the relationship Paul had with the church in Philipi. From this text we see what it means to be a faithful goer and...
In this final chapter, Paul is driving home the point that if we have been saved by the grace of God, we must lead different lives - ones that are clearly marked by devotion to good works - especially so that the lost see them and come to faith in...
Paul has been connecting belief and behavior all throughout his letter to Titus, and that theme continues in this chapter. He will help Titus understand that the grace of God transforms us to be men, women, pastors, and servants whose lives accurately...
This week we contrasted the faithful pastors we learned about last week with the false teachers, who are upsetting families with their false teaching on circumcision and other "Jewish myths." Because of all the damage they were causing...
In this passage, Paul is going to instruct Titus to finish what he left undone, namely appointing elders in every town. Then Paul will go on to help Titus understand who is qualified to serve as an elder, focusing primarily on character, and...
This week we continued our Pastoral Epistles series with the last book in the series, Titus. Paul sees himself as God’s servant and the servant of the church, so he is determined to spend his life serving both God and his people. We struggle to live...
We read Paul's final words to Timothy (and likely his final written words), where he begs him to come to him soon. Paul knows he doesn't have much time left, he's lonely, and he's cold - but he wants to continue his ministry from...
In the face of false teaching that continually assaults the Church, Paul reminds us of whom our Justification rests upon. While the Judaizers would attempt to add to Christ's perfect work upon the Cross, Paul encourages the Church at Philippi to...
Paul is wrapping up his final letter to Timothy - in fact, his final letter that we know of - and wants to impress upon him the necessity of a faithful life and ministry. As Christians, our motivation for proclaiming the Gospel is not only the great...
In this passage, Paul will call Timothy to live a very different life than the false teachers who opposed the truth and created problems for people who wanted to live faithfully. Following Jesus in a broken world is very hard. For us to do it, we...
We were created to love God and others, but our sinful nature leads us to love ourselves more than God or our neighbor. Moreover, it sets us against what God has revealed to be true. We learned that misplaced love results in opposition to the truth.
Paul will warn Timothy about those who argue over words and teach error, rather than rightly handling the Word of truth. Our desire is to faithfully serve God and others. We do that when we refuse to participate in unprofitable debate, and instead...
Paul knew it would be hard for Timothy to continue the work of discipleship, especially since he was unlikely to see him again. He knew he would need something firm to stand on - and nothing is firmer than the promises of God. Similarly, we need...
The only avenue to true sonship is the one that the prodigal takes: repentance and faith. If we rely upon our own righteousness, we cut ourselves off from the family of God.
We all long for answers and solutions to our deepest problems. The sad reality is that we consistently look to human government - politicians, political parties, and policies - to solve the problems that cannot be solved in those ways. We cannot...
This week we'll be covering 1 Timothy 6:17-21 in a sermon called, "Store Up Treasure in Heaven." It is our final sermon in 1 Timothy before we turn our attention to Christmas for the next two weeks. At the end of the letter, Paul...
Last week, Beau preached on the previous 10 verses where Paul called out the false teachers, who loved quarreling and monetary gain. We learned how true teaching leads to godly contentment. This week, we'll be reminded that Christianity is not...
This week we learned that sound teaching from Scripture that leads to godliness and contentment is in stark contrast to false teaching for sordid gain that leads to ruin and destruction.
Last week, we saw that we were called to minister to and receive ministry from every stage of life, and learned that in the church family, every member is a minister. On Sunday, we'll be focusing on authority in the church and the marketplace...
This week we're covering 1 Timothy 5:1-16 in a message called, "Every Member a Minister." The vast majority of the passage deals with widows - which ones qualify for assistance from the church, and which ones qualify to serve in an...
This week's sermon is called, "Devoted to the Word" and covers 1 Timothy 4:11-16. This is a fairly well-known passage because of Paul's instruction to Timothy not to let anyone look down on him because he is young. The sermon is a...
In this passage, Paul will help Timothy understand how to be a good servant of Christ Jesus, one who is faithful to God and helping others grow in faithfulness as well. We learned that good servants of Christ Jesus hope in God while training...
Paul again addresses the false teachers and their teaching, which he last addressed in chapter 1. God has been clear that some would depart from the faith, and they do so through these false teachers and their teaching - which is demonic in origin...
Paul is going to outline his purpose for writing this letter to Timothy, and as he does, he makes the connection between what we believe and how we behave. We'll learn that what we believe about Christ is the foundation for life in the church.
This Sunday we learned that God has provided servants for his church for the building up of the body and the spread of the Gospel.
Last Week we learned that men who aspire to serve as overseers/pastors/elders in the church desire a noble task, and that they must be men of character who are able to teach. Today we’ll continue our study of the qualifications that must be met for...
This week's sermon covers 1 Timothy 3:1-3 and is called, “The Gift of Godly Pastors, Part 1.” In the 2nd chapter, Paul explained that we must devote ourselves to prayer, and gave instructions to men and women regarding their conduct in...
Our society increasingly seeks to minimize or eliminate differences between men and women. However, God created men and women differently – as complements. Unfortunately, both men and women have been radically affected by the Fall. Our sinful natures...
As Christians, we should desire what God desires, and God desires the salvation of the lost. When our desires match God's, it leads us to prayer and action on behalf of those who don't yet follow Jesus. We'll learn that God desires...
Believers in Jesus don’t live in a time of peace, but a time of war. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that when we look around, but it’s true. Satan is waging a war against God and all his creation, particularly human beings made in his image and...
This Sunday we will start our new sermon series called, "Fight the Good Fight" over the Pastoral Epistles. The sermon will cover 1 Timothy 1:1-11 and is entitled, "Stewardship, Not Speculation." After warmly greeting Timothy...
Our culture values individual rights, and that's a good thing for the most part. But it also has convinced us that our freedoms and rights are most important - even if it means disregarding others. But we are called to love and serve others, not...
We live in an immature culture - not because people are waiting longer to get married, buy a house, have kids, or become financially independent. The mark of maturity is taking responsibility for ourselves and others, and that's where the church...
This week we begin a 3-week series called "Counter Culture" where we'll be looking at three areas we as Christians are called to be distinct from the world - but we struggle with looking and acting the same as everyone...
This week we learn the proper response of the believer to suffering is to affirm God’s absolute sovereignty and bow in humble submission.
In this part of our series, we answer the question what is the proper response of the righteous when they suffer?