Wednesdays in the Word

In this episode, Pastor John Sypert of Preston Highlands Baptist Church addresses a specific example of how to think through a disputable issue, or a matter of conscience.

In this episode, Pastor John Sypert of Preston Highlands Baptist Church discusses how we can discover our spiritual gifts, whether they can change over time, and a couple of questions about what Paul calls the “higher gifts.”

In this episode, Pastor John Sypert of Preston Highlands Baptist Church discusses several questions related to the different forms of church government, how congregationalism is better equipped to protect the gospel than other forms of church government, and what church members can do to best carry out their job of protecting and promoting the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In this episode, Pastor John Sypert of Preston Highlands Baptist Church discusses how we can increase our joy in our giving, how our giving should be primarily directed to our local church, and why pastors and missionaries should give away some of the money that was given to them.  

In this episode, Pastor John Sypert addresses several practical questions related to international missions, specifically how we can discern whether we should go and how we should choose who to support financially.  

In this episode, Pastor John Sypert discusses Jesus' command to "make disciples" (Matt. 28:19) and helps us think through how that can work in the context of a local church.

In this episode, Pastor John address several questions about deacon ministry in the local church.  

Here are links to the resources he mentions:

Baptist Foundations, eds. Mark Dever and Jonathan Leeman

Paul's Vision for the Deacons, Alexander Strauch

9Marks Journal on Deacons

In this episode, Pastor John Sypert discusses how elders are sheep like all the other sheep, why they need the ministry of the body just like everyone else, and to what degree church members are called to submit to their leadership.

In this episode, Pastor John discusses Church Discipline.  

In this episode, Pastor John discusses how God uses the church to help us keep following Jesus until the end, why online "church" is not church, and how we can help people see the importance of gathering with and joining a local church.