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Gospel-Driven Godliness and Church Leadership, Part 5
To aid Titus and the Cretan churches in appointing qualified elders so that the churches are properly ordered, Paul, in vv. 6-9, sets forth three areas where an elder must be “above reproach.” The three areas where a prospective elder must be free of a damaging accusation are his family life, personal life and doctrinal life. In v. 9, Paul sets forth the most important qualification, namely an elder must be above reproach in his doctrinal life.
Gospel-Driven Godliness and Church Leadership, Part 4
To aid Titus and the Cretan churches in appointing qualified elders so that the churches are properly ordered, Paul, in vv. 6-9, sets forth three areas where an elder must be “above reproach.” The three areas where a prospective elder must be free of a damaging accusation are his family life, personal life and doctrinal life. The first area a prospective elder must be above reproach is in his family life. He must be the husband of one wife and have faithful children. Second, an elder must not only be able to manage his own marriage and family well (1:6) but he must also be able to manage himself well. Therefore, in vv. 7-8, Paul lists five sinful vices and six godly virtues, which define what it means for an elder to be “above reproach” in his personal life. These eleven qualities, which are evidence of God's transforming grace, are essential to fitness for oversight of God's household.
Gospel-Driven Godliness and Church Leadership, Part 3
To aid Titus and the Cretan churches in appointing qualified elders so that the churches are properly ordered, Paul, in vv. 6-9, sets forth three areas where an elder must be “above reproach.” The three areas where a prospective elder must be free of a damaging accusation are his family life, personal life and doctrinal life. The first area a prospective elder must be above reproach is in his family life. He must be the husband of one wife and have faithful children.
THE PLEASURE AND PAIN OF FATHERHOOD: II (Morning)
A few weeks ago I started a sermon with the intention of preaching about two aspects of fatherhood, called the Pleasure and Pain of Fatherhood. I had one key Scripture text for each aspect, but it didn’t take me long to figure out that if I was going to do either text any justice at all I was going to have to devote a sermon to each text. So last time I preached I spoke on what Scripture teaches about the pleasure and delight of fatherhood from the words of God the Father to God the Son at the Son’s baptism. This morning I want to address the question of how we love our children when they sin. What about when they disobey and cause us much displeasure? What does Scripture say about discipline and how do we do it in the context of love and pleasure and delight? Many of us discipline the way our parents did, what we need to do is learn to discipline the way God does. What I want to do again this morning is say some things I wish I had heard 30 years ago and not just heard but taken to heart and put into practice.
Men of Courage
God has called men to be the representation of Christ in the home. This little understood Biblical truth has caused many homes and families to be dysfunctional since its reality is not properly applied. This teaching calls men to a iron-jawed commitment to a higher standard of loving their wives as Christ loved the Church and raising their kids in the training and instruction of the Lord.
THE PLEASURE AND PAIN OF FATHERHOOD, I (Morning)
The first thing the first speaker said was that there’s not a single functional family in the entire Bible, not one. Every home we encounter in the Bible is dysfunctional. Sin has laid waste to every human family and all of us come from broken homes, some more than others, but all broken. And that definitely includes the one I came from and the one I created and have. Nothing like traveling 2300 miles with a couple of sons to remind a dad of his sins and the sins he has passed down from one generation to another. Without a doubt the most painful experiences of my life are seeing my sins in the mirror of my sons. What I want to do this morning is say some things I wish I had heard 30 years ago and not just heard but taken to heart and put into practice. If we want to know what fatherhood looks like and sounds like and smells like and tastes like, we should turn to the original designer, the first architect, the best example and model and look in the book He wrote. I’m serious about this. The older I get and the more I read and study the Bible the more amazed I am at how it really does have the answer to all of life’s questions and issues. It’s the most supremely practical book. It contains God’s wisdom for doing life. If there is a question we need to know the answer to, that answer will be found in Scripture. Scripture teaches us everything we need to know about fathering and mothering. When you boil it down to the basics, fathering and mothering is love and correction, tender and tough, grace and guidance, delight and discipline. That’s what I want to focus on this morning and the next time I preach, delight and discipline, or pleasure and pain. From Scripture I want to show every father here these two aspects of godly, Biblical, masculine fatherhood. By the way, this has broader application beyond sons and daughters, to grandsons and granddaughters, nieces and nephews, and to all the children we relate to in this covenant community. This morning we will stop with the first half of what I am calling the pleasure and pain of fatherhood, or the delight and discipline of being a dad.
Gospel of Freedom: Adopting Grace, pt.1 (Gal. 4:1-7)
Pastor Bryan teaches about God's overflowing grace by our adoption into His family.
Advent: Adoption
Adoption is possibly one of the most misunderstood truths of the gospel and the Christian life. For many it is a second best option to having your own children, and for others it is not even an option because of fear. For the Christian, these are both examples of wrong and incomplete thinking about adoption. The truth is that adoption is at the center of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is perhaps the strongest demonstration of the gospel that exists. In adoption we see children who are fatherless, abandoned, alone, and left to wander brought into a new life of hope, joy and family. We see the story of adoption carried out spiritually in God's adoption of us as Christians in Jesus Christ. We see in the scriptures that our adoption is older than creation and the entire cosmos is groaning, longing to see the revealing of sons and daughters of God. As people adopted into God's family, we are a people of adoption. As adopted children of God, our identity becomes that of sons and daughters of God, sharing in the inheritance of all things with Christ and as a son or daughter we share the mission of the Son, the renewal of all things. This spiritual truth of adoption compels us to be people who support adoption and physically adopt children today. Adoption is a powerful gospel declaration and demonstration that we can join God in.
