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Introduction Good morning all. We have been working through Paul’s letter to Timothy as he charges him to set right some issues that had developed in the church. He sent Timothy a letter of encouragement and correction for the church to conduct themselves in a righteous and God honoring way. One of the…

The "essential qualities" of a Christian leader are revealed: dependance on strength through Christ; first-hand experience of God's grace adn mercy, adn commitment to spreading the Gospel.

We continue to day in our topical series on Worship. As we study this topic, I pray that we will grow in our knowledge of God and our love for Him. I pray that we will experience His presence and His grace in our lives. I pray that we will worship Him with all that we are and all that we have. And that…

Isaiah 43: 10-15 We live in an age where many deny the existence of the true and living God but men are spiritual creatures and they will worship anything. They may worship His creation or His creatures Those who deny having any faith at all are actually revealing they have faith its just faith in themselves…

But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge…

Introduction We come today to gather before the truth of God’s word, to hear his voice an his will in our lives. Let us Pray If you would open you bible to 1 Timothy chapter 1. While you are turning there after a little introduction. Today we start to explore what is commonly know as one of the Pastoral…

Good morning. Grab your Bibles and turn with me to Luke chapter 3. As you are making your way to Luke 3 , I want to remind you of what King David said in Psalm 119 . “O how I love your law.” Antioch our church is a church that is commited to God’s Word and to teach God’s Word. The reason why that is…

Intro A Letter from Paul the Apostle to Timothy - the young pastor deployed to Ephesus This letter gives instruction to Timothy about how he is to lead the church and organise the church. This ancient wisdom is for us today, it tells us how God wants his church to function. Last week we saw Defending…

Introduction Turn with me today to the first Timothy chapter 1. Chapter 1 summarizes the reason for Paul’s writing of this letter to his son of the faith. After a brief salutation, the rest of the chapter 1 contains the objective of Paul and his instruction to Timothy. Timothy had been given the task…

Introduction Today we continue in Paul’s letter to Timothy. Two weeks ago we looked at the close relationship between these two men. Between a mentor and a disciple. These two men were very close and Paul had urged Timothy to lead the church in the city Ephesus. Last week we looked at the context of…

Happy Mothers day. We are in our third week of our equipment series - looking at the life cycle of a believer. We stay focused as a church on the equipping of Saints, giving you the tools and training you need to go into the world as believers, understanding that is our purpose. The pastor, the council,…

Introduction: We live in the information age. There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us in the 21st Century. Obviously much of this information available is tainted by humanism and sin, but there is also some great information out there for us to discover. There have never been such…

God is Spirit One of the things that I hope to accomplish with this sermon series is that we get a bigger and grander view of who God is. Theologian A.W. Tozer wrote, “The weightiest word in any language is its word for God.” He also wrote “What we think when we think about God is the most important…

John 18:38 (ESV) Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. This morning we are going to talk about worldviews. We will get to the definition of a worldview in just a moment, but first it might be helpful if we talk about a practical example. Let’s talk about…

To Timothy my true son in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well, holding on to faith and a good conscience,…

Jesus calls Sinners The call of God is for every sinner. As we discussed last week, a sinner is one who has fallen from the original righteousness given when God created man. Because man choose to listen to the voice of one other than God Almighty, he became a transgressor and pulled all of humanity…

I Timothy 1:12-20 Good morning church! We are resuming our study of 1 Timothy this morning with a message entitled Exceedingly Abundant. No fancy Hebrew or Greek this morning, but in our own language exceedingly means extremely…more than just a lot....and Abundant means rich supply, great quantity, or…

We are reminded that Christ has graciously removed the burden of the Law. We are encouraged to seek out pure, sound doctrine.

I. We Must Fight A. Because of the Command 18 This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you fight the good fight, military command. An order to be carried out. He is obligated by his commanding officer who is the Lord…

The grace of God was the cornerstone of the ministry of the Apostle Paul. I. Be Thankful for God’s Mercy 1 Timothy 1:12 (NASB95) 12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service, After Paul believed in his Jesus, the early saints were…

Introduction I hope we’re all scandalized by the words in v. 2 in our gospel lesson. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” We tend to think of the Pharisees and scribes as the bad guys until we take a deep look and realize that we, or at least…

We Are All Sinners In homiletic textbooks (these are books on how to preach), they often say that a good sermon has three main points: an introduction, a body, and conclusion. Then they break this down even further and say that the body of the sermon likewise should have three and only three points,…

I’d like to take a moment to address and clarify some things from last week’s discussion during our Fellowship & Focus hour. I just a heads up - we won’t be taking questions or comments right now for the sake of time, as well as to give people time to think about this. But, if you do have any questions…

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith…

Show Map City of Ephesus Founded by the Amazons about 2000 B.C Ephesus was once the capital of Asia Minor state of the Roman Empire. Ephesus means desirable 3rd largest Library (Library of Celus) in Ancient World (SHOW PIC) Ephesus derived its greatness from two sources, commercial trade (sea-port city)…