God lays out His strategy for maintaining order within the church as it relates to gender roles.

The peace that we have throughout the adversities of life will inspire the lost to look for help in Jesus Christ.

Paul shares with Timothy and us how to use your story of salvation to change the lives of others around you. How can you help shape and mold the faith of friends and family?

Jesus expects His Church to stand up for the truth He has set forth in His Word. When people begins straying from its plain teaching into speculations and begin dividing the Church through teaching error, we are to gracious, yet firmly set them straight and explain to the Church what the Word says and how the individual or group has erred. By doing so lovingly, we build the congregation up and advance the work of God in the world.

In this sermon, we introduce First Timothy with the exact center of the book. In it, Paul brings glory to God through His work in the Universal and Local Church. Join us in a look at church.

We want to join Jesus in His mission of transforming lives in this world. Our church believes this involves starting churches in the Lehigh Valley region in communities where there is no Gospel-preaching, Bible-believing church.

Jesus Family, the Church, is worth your time and energy. She is worth caring about. Each individual is worth your brotherly love, compassion, prayer. Spend yourself for the sake of this body of fellow believers!

Jesus really takes our holiness serious. God wants us to live right and pure in a world full of sin. When we fall short, He used loving discipline to continue the process of spiritual maturity in our soul.

In our text last week, the author was making the case that Jesus is worth living for. Now he turns the attention of the readers to the countless men and women who in fact did live for Jesus in the past. Their faith got them through the difficulties they faced. He now tells his readers and us that our faith will get us through the difficult seasons of our lives.

Jesus is worth living for. He died to give you life. There are countless life-altering benefits to following Him through thick and thin. Also, there are consequences for abandoning Him.