Tag: 1 Timothy
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December 19, 2021 Worship Service
What Timothy is to do: flee, pursue, and fight to take hold of. Timothy’s task is to live faithfully by applying what Paul has said in his personal walk of faith.
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December 12, 2021 Worship Service
There is great gain in the faith; it comes not in earthly terms (money, power, status), but instead in the contentment of knowing that we are cared for by our Lord and secure in eternity through His blood. This kind of contentment is greater than anything money can buy or that the things of the world can offer.
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December 5, 2021 Worship Service
Christ is not only worthy of all honor, but He also perfectly exampled what it is to be a servant. We must ask the Spirit to make us like our Master.
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November 28, 2021 Worship Service
Christ gives value to His people no matter what their social or marital status is. We have worth because of Him.
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November 21, 2021 Worship Service
Paul has written often about how the church is a spiritual family. Starting in chapter 5, we’ll see what that looks like practically for different groups in the church.
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November 14, 2021 Worship Service
Paul’s pattern throughout these verses is to take something that is true and then to show how Timothy and the Ephesians can embody and carry forth that truth. So, Christ’s servant attitude is to be Timothy’s pattern of life; the sure hope of salvation that Jesus offers to all who follow is to be what Timothy teaches others to place their hope upon; and the perfect and faithful life of Christ is to provide a trajectory that Timothy’s imperfect life is to point toward.
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November 7, 2021 Worship Service
Christ’s work doesn’t just aim at one aspect of our lives – the material, what to accept and reject, but also the spiritual: that we would be cleansed from our sin and set right with the Lord. Our response needs to involve both of these aspects: following Jesus in our everyday lives and trusting Him to see us safely into the eternal kingdom.
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October 31, 2021 Worship Service
Who Christ is – and what He has accomplished – are at the very center of our hope. This is why we exist as a church, this is why all of the other applications of this letter exist: they are our response to salvation, a response that aims to introduce those in the world around us to our Savior.
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October 24, 2021 Worship Service
Christ Himself perfectly embodied service to others – since this is a call for all Christians, we need faithful people who will show us what this looks like in our daily lives.
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October 3, 2021 Worship Service
Those who wish to serve as overseers are to have certain things be true about their lives and certain things not be characteristic. Generally, these patterns would apply to all growing Christians, effectively putting overseers in a place to be followed and imitated, rather than on a spiritual pedestal.
