Guard the Teaching (1 Timothy 1:1-7)
The Apostle Paul's two letters to Timothy, together with his letter to Titus, are often called the "Pastoral Epistles." This is appropriate,...
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Timothy: The Pastor's Primer
While Second Timothy represents the last word we have from the pen of the Apostle Paul, First Timothy was written a few years earlier, probably immediately after the apostle had been impriso...
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20 of 31 episodesAwful Lawfulness (1 Timothy 1:8-11)
When I was in Nashville, Tennessee, last week, I noticed that city, like many American cities, seems to have a church on every street corner...
The Model Leader (1 Timothy 1:12-17)
In the closing days of his ministry, the Apostle Paul left Timothy in Ephesus in order to correct some of the conditions in the church there...
Wage the Good Warfare (1 Timothy 1:18-20)
It is sometimes helpful to pick out certain verses of a biblical passage which summarize in concise terms what the passage is all about. We...
The First Thing -- Prayer (1 Timothy 2:1-7)
The first assignment the Apostle Paul gave to Timothy in regard to the church at Ephesus was to correct the teaching, which had begun to dri...
Adam's Rib or Women's Lib? (1 Timothy 2:8-15)
We are approaching one of the major battlefields of Scripture, the controversial passage from Chapter 2 of Paul's first letter to Timothy. M...
The Lord's Leaders (1 Timothy 3:1-7)
There is a wide spectrum of titles used for leaders of churches in this country. The Baptists have deacons; the Presbyterians have elders; t...
The Lord's Servants (1 Timothy 3:8-13)
I find much confusion today, even here at PBC, about who the leaders of the church ought to be, and what these terms, elders, deacons, and p...
God's Chosen Instrument: The Church (1 Timothy 3:14-15)
I flew out of Denver, Colorado, to Peoria, Illinois, a few years ago. Not very many people go to Peoria, but I did, and I flew on Ozark Airl...
The Central Glory (1 Timothy 3:16)
This morning we recited together the Nicene Creed, which came from the fourth century. We joined with the confession of faith of Christians...
Fraudulent Faith (1 Timothy 4:1-5)
Chapter four of First Timothy begins with dramatic and intriguing words. The apostle says:
A Good Minister (1 Timothy 4:6-10)
Last week Ron Ritchie and I were at Indiana University. We had a great time of Christian fellowship on a beautiful campus in the midst of al...
Advice to a Young Pastor (1 Timothy 4:11-16)
I feel a great affinity to the section of the Apostle Paul's first letter to Timothy which we will be looking at this morning. I came to Pal...
The Care and Feeding of Widows (1 Timothy 5:1-16)
In Chapter 5 of Paul's first letter to Timothy, the apostle addresses certain continuing problems in the church at Ephesus. Timothy will hav...
Help for Elders (1 Timothy 5:17-25)
In this section from First Timothy 5 the Apostle Paul again turns to admonitions and instructions concerning the elders of a church. Many of...
Sound Words for Slaves (1 Timothy 6:1-5)
At the time the Apostle Paul wrote his first letter to Timothy, half the population of the Roman Empire -- about sixty million people -- wer...
The Cost of Riches (1 Timothy 6:6-19)
Last week a man in Brooklyn, New York, whose work was replacing light bulbs in a New York skyscraper, bought a one-dollar lottery ticket and...
O Man of God! (1 Timothy 6:11-21)
We have come to the last of our studies in First Timothy. This is a very moving passage in which the Apostle Paul addresses young Timothy, l...
The Promise of Life (2 Timothy 1:1-7)
We come to this second letter to Timothy with quickened anticipation, realizing that these are the last recorded words of the Apostle Paul....
The Call to Courage (2 Timothy 1:8-13)
During the presentation on the work of the Christian Service Brigade this morning, it struck me that the beautiful thing about the work of t...