Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: Behold, Your Mother Text: 1 Timothy 5:3-16 Today’s Truth – A healthy church cares well for widows 1. Challenge family to care for their own 2. Encourage younger widows to remarry 3. Become family to the familyless widow May widows in our church family be well cared for as mothers…
Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: Welcome to the Family Text: 1 Timothy 5:1-2 Today’s Truth – A healthy church relates to one another as a family 1. Cultivate connection and commitment to one another 2. Show love and honor to one another May you realize that church is not something you go to, but a…
Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: Great Expectations Text: 1 Timothy 4:11-16 Today’s Truth – A healthy church has healthy expectations for its pastors 1. Expect your pastors to be an example, even if they are young 2. Expect your pastors to devote themselves to ministering the Scripture 3. Expect your pastors to exercise and hone…
Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: Jesus Gym Text: 1 Timothy 4:6-10 Today’s Truth – A healthy church functions as a Jesus gym, training people in godliness 1. Free yourself from fluff and the frivolous 2. Value spiritual growth over physical and mental growth 3. Hope in Jesus for this life and the next May your…
Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: I Shall Not Be Moved Text: 1 Timothy 3:14-4:5 Today’s Truth – A healthy church unwaveringly upholds biblical truth throughout the ages 1. Realize the church’s crucial role in society 2. Keep Christ and His gospel as the chief cornerstone 3. Expect people to be drawn away and try to…
Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: The Good Standing of Deacons Text: 1 Timothy 3:8-13 Today’s Truth – A healthy church has a biblical vision for the deacons of the church 1. What does the word for this office mean? 2. What are the responsibilities and function of this office? 3. What are the qualifications for…
Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: The Noble Task of Pastoring Text: 1 Timothy 3:1-7 Today’s Truth – A healthy church has a Biblical vision for the pastors of the church. What words does the New Testament use for this office? ποιμήν (poimān) = pastor, shepherd ἐπισκοπή (episkopā) = overseer, bishop πρεσβύτερος (presbūteros) = elder What…
Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: What’s a Girl to Do? Text: Isaiah 40:6-8 Today’s Topic: Principles for happily embracing women’s roles in the church 1. Desire Scripture over culture 2. Be on guard when the serpent whispers in your ear 3. See women as indispensable and gifted ministry partners 4. Encourage women to serve in…
Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: Father Knows Best Text: 1 Timothy 2:8-15 Today’s Truth – A healthy church embraces God’s design for men and women in the worship gathering 1. Men should be exemplary in public prayer 2. Women should draw attention to their godliness 3. Men should teach and exercise authority in the assembly…
Series: Diagnosis: Healthy Church Title: Prayer Ninja Text: 1 Timothy 1:18-2:7 Today’s Truth – A healthy church wages the good warfare of prayer 1. Pray for strength to withstand and confront the lies of false teachers 2. Pray for government leaders to let us peacefully and freely worship God 3. Pray for lost people to…