How to Handle Temptation
Resisting temptation requires being realistic about its inevitability, taking personal responsibility, understanding its process, and relying on God’s strength to overcome it.
Sermons
I’ve been preaching for over thirty years now. Almost every one of the sermons I’ve preached since 1996 is here.
Some of the sermons are good, but not all of them. I’ve learned a lot in the thirty-plus years I've been preaching, and I still have a long way to go.
Feel free to use these sermons as a resource. If you’re a preacher, please preach your own sermons.
Deacons (1 Timothy 3:8-13)
Deacons are church servants with specific qualifications focused on service, while elders oversee leadership and governance.
How to Handle Failure
God understands human failures and sins, offers limitless forgiveness through grace, and transforms sins into growth when confessed and surrendered.
A Leader’s Qualifications (1 Timothy 3:1-7)
Elders in the church are responsible for leading, teaching, equipping, protecting, and modeling Christlike behavior, while meeting high personal, domestic, relational, and doctrinal qualifications, with authority entrusted to them but accountability to the congregation.
Two Lost Arts (1 Timothy 3:1-7)
Biblical leadership requires multiple godly elders to guide the church with accountability, while the congregation must practice supportive followership for harmony and growth.