Elder-led

Church Family, Church structure is often viewed as boring and irrelevant to the life and well-being of a church.  This could not be farther from the truth laid out in 1 Timothy 3:1-7.  Paul has left Timothy in Ephesus to charge the false teachers to stop teaching...

Men and Women

Church Family, Reading God’s Word is one of the most fruitful things we can do as Christians.  So, it makes sense that during the Sunday Gathering, we would read God’s word, sing God’s word, pray God’s word, and preach God’s word.  As we...

Pray for ALL

Church Family, I do hope your week is off to a great start and that you are finding God’s presence to be joyous.  We’ve been in 1 Timothy for four weeks, and already it has provided great insight into our life together as a church, and our life lived...

An Unlikely Conversion

Church Family, When you consider your conversion, do you see God’s grace?  Paul certainly did, and it spilled over into thankfulness (1 Tim 1:12).  For Paul, God’s grace did not stop in his conversion but continued in calling him to ministry and filling...

Warning

Church Family, What an instructive time together as we dove into the next section of 1 Timothy this past Sunday.  The aim of Timothy’s difficult work in Ephesus is love (1 Tim 1:5).  Love is the aim of the charge he must give to the false teachers.  This does...