Week of 4/26/26
Dear Church Family,
Time seems short this morning, so I will keep this email short as well. Spring is busy and you don't want to find yourself in summer or early fall wondering which way is up. Keep your eyes on Jesus through prayer, daily Bible-reading and regular fellowship with other believers seeking to be more like Jesus. That is what you need to stay grounded more than money or another break. Keep learning and serving Jesus, that is where real life is found.
Praise God our youth made it back from the coast safely and had a great time growing in their faith and please pray for our folks in South Dakota serving with the Rockside Ranch crew this week and for their travels home.
Home Enjoyment
Read Titus 2. This week's home enjoyment focus is on 3-5, we will study 7-10 this coming Sunday.
Why are the instructions to the church given in verses 1-10 inseparable from what follows in 11-15?
Reverent can be perceived a number of ways from serious and sacred to snobby and distant. Paul's use of the word definitely seems to denote a healthy connection with what is holy or sacred. What does healthy reverence look like? Why does Paul say reverent in behavior, as opposed to only attitude or thought?
What makes slander and gossip appealing?
Why are they so destructive in the church or community?
What is told to be put in their place? Ephesians 4:29
How does someone go from a healthy use of wine to being a slave of it?
Paul wrote 1 Corinthians 6:12 in light of different issues from wine, but shared the principle that even if something is perceived as permissible we are not to be 'dominated' or 'mastered' by it. Who alone should be allowed dominion or to be our Master (1 Cor 6:19-20). What does that have to do with our relationship with wine or other substances?
What hindrances might older women have to teaching younger women?
What hindrances might younger women have in being taught by older women?
What are some examples of how older women teach younger women to love their husbands and children?
Why do they need to learn, won't they just figure it out?
Is it the same kind of love that you would hear about on TV or a song on the radio? How would you know whether it was real love or not?
For women - When you look at the list of things that follow: self-control, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, do you have a desire to be growing in those things for the glory of God?
Have you talked with a woman you see these things in and respect about the difficulties of living these out?
An 'older woman' may actually be someone younger in age. Have the humility to ask the Lord for the desire to grow in these and ask another woman for instruction.
For men - Are we encouraging these things in the women around us by our lifestyle? Are we making it easier or harder for women (particularly w/ wives) to be self-controlled by our actions and words? Do we value and praise purity: innocence from worldly thoughts and ideas and modest living and apparel? Do we honor and support what is done in and from the home? How do we encourage kindness in word and deed? For our part, do we make our wives obedience a place of trust and joy or a painful hardship? How so?
Women, I encourage you with these scriptures to seek to grow in these areas and meet with one another to talk about how to obey God in these things and experience the blessing that comes from it.
Men, ask the Lord if you are part of the problem or part of the solution in allowing God to shape you to be the man who values and encourages these qualities for your sisters in Christ.
In His Love,
Pastor Phillip
Time seems short this morning, so I will keep this email short as well. Spring is busy and you don't want to find yourself in summer or early fall wondering which way is up. Keep your eyes on Jesus through prayer, daily Bible-reading and regular fellowship with other believers seeking to be more like Jesus. That is what you need to stay grounded more than money or another break. Keep learning and serving Jesus, that is where real life is found.
Praise God our youth made it back from the coast safely and had a great time growing in their faith and please pray for our folks in South Dakota serving with the Rockside Ranch crew this week and for their travels home.
Home Enjoyment
Read Titus 2. This week's home enjoyment focus is on 3-5, we will study 7-10 this coming Sunday.
Why are the instructions to the church given in verses 1-10 inseparable from what follows in 11-15?
Reverent can be perceived a number of ways from serious and sacred to snobby and distant. Paul's use of the word definitely seems to denote a healthy connection with what is holy or sacred. What does healthy reverence look like? Why does Paul say reverent in behavior, as opposed to only attitude or thought?
What makes slander and gossip appealing?
Why are they so destructive in the church or community?
What is told to be put in their place? Ephesians 4:29
How does someone go from a healthy use of wine to being a slave of it?
Paul wrote 1 Corinthians 6:12 in light of different issues from wine, but shared the principle that even if something is perceived as permissible we are not to be 'dominated' or 'mastered' by it. Who alone should be allowed dominion or to be our Master (1 Cor 6:19-20). What does that have to do with our relationship with wine or other substances?
What hindrances might older women have to teaching younger women?
What hindrances might younger women have in being taught by older women?
What are some examples of how older women teach younger women to love their husbands and children?
Why do they need to learn, won't they just figure it out?
Is it the same kind of love that you would hear about on TV or a song on the radio? How would you know whether it was real love or not?
For women - When you look at the list of things that follow: self-control, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, do you have a desire to be growing in those things for the glory of God?
Have you talked with a woman you see these things in and respect about the difficulties of living these out?
An 'older woman' may actually be someone younger in age. Have the humility to ask the Lord for the desire to grow in these and ask another woman for instruction.
For men - Are we encouraging these things in the women around us by our lifestyle? Are we making it easier or harder for women (particularly w/ wives) to be self-controlled by our actions and words? Do we value and praise purity: innocence from worldly thoughts and ideas and modest living and apparel? Do we honor and support what is done in and from the home? How do we encourage kindness in word and deed? For our part, do we make our wives obedience a place of trust and joy or a painful hardship? How so?
Women, I encourage you with these scriptures to seek to grow in these areas and meet with one another to talk about how to obey God in these things and experience the blessing that comes from it.
Men, ask the Lord if you are part of the problem or part of the solution in allowing God to shape you to be the man who values and encourages these qualities for your sisters in Christ.
In His Love,
Pastor Phillip
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