Sunday 15th December – Preparing for Christmas
Christmas Day is perhaps the day of the year that we spend the most time and effort preparing for. (Apart from your wedding day – but that doesn’t come around every single year, does it?). Not only do we prepare for it ourselves, but we find that we are surrounded by lots of other people […]
Sunday 1st December – 1 Timothy 4.11-15
“Set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity”. Paul isn’t telling Timothy to become a plaster saint – he’s telling him to live out his faith follow Jesus as his model. Jesus, whom the Pharisees accused of being “a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and […]
Sunday 24th November – 1 Timothy 4.6-10
When was the last time you had a good workout down at the gym? The fitness club industry is big business, but if Paul’s instructions to Timothy and the Ephesus church were taken seriously by the general population, there might be something of an upset! If we took it seriously and worked out our spiritual muscles, […]
Sunday 17th November – 1 Timothy 4.1-5
False teachers raising their ugly heads, consciences cauterised, taboos on marriage and food… Paul warns Timothy – and us – against all of this. And he encourages us to get to know the Truth really well and to accept God’s bountiful gifts with thanksgiving.
Sunday 10th November – 1 Timothy 3.14-16
Paul writes a very practical letter to Timothy but, nevertheless, he sets everything in the context of the wonder of the mystery that God has revealed in Jesus Christ. Today’s verses are perhaps the doctrinal highpoint of the Epistle. The Apostle sets out two main truths for us to grasp. Firstly, he talks about God’s […]
Sunday 3rd November – 1 Timothy 3.1-13
Here, Paul gives Timothy instructions about members of leadership teams in the church. But don’t switch off if you don’t have any leadership responsibilities, or if you don’t aspire to any. We are all concerned with what God says through Paul’s words. The qualities required are those that every Christian should be developing. (Oh, and there’s […]
Sunday 27th October – 1 Tim 2.8-15
Today’s verses have been misused and often misunderstood through much of the history of the church. We look today at what Paul says about the status of Christian women.
Sunday 20th October – 1 Tim 2.1-7
Have you realised how politically incorrect these first chapters of Paul’s letter to Timothy are? Proclaiming these verses far and wide is likely to ruffle lots of feathers. Doug Rogers takes us further into the full impact of the Christian message.
Sunday 13th October – 1 Tim 1.18-20
Only three verses in today’s message – but they certainly pack a punch about how we should respond when the Lord entrusts us with a command.
Sunday 6th October – 1 Timothy 1.8-17
These verses should help us to understand something about mercy, salvation and grace. We often come across these three words and tend to lump them together without necessarily seeing the different significance of each one. There’s another word that crops up in relation to mercy, salvation and grace and it’s not such a popular or […]