What are your New Year's resolutions? This season is a time where many reflect on the previous year and consider how they might change and grow in the next year. This month, we'll consider some typical New Year's sayings and weigh them against the wisdom of God's word in the book of Proverbs.
How do people change? How do you change? Make a new year's resolution? Finding a new experience? Turn over a new leaf? In our passage this Sunday, we'll see more specifically how a Christian's union with Jesus Christ transforms our identity and enables us to live together as "members one of another."
We come this week to 1 Timothy's dramatic conclusion. It's as if the Apostle Paul is reaching through the page, grabbing Timothy by the shoulders, staring intensely into his eyes, and earnestly exhorting him: "Fight the good fight of the faith!" We'll explore this Sunday why the Christian life is a battle, and we'll see specifically what we're fighting for and against.
Why do you do what you do? What is the primary motivation for your day-to-day actions? God’s word commands us to do good works and obey God with our lives. However, Galatians 3:1-14 shows us that our motivation for our good deeds is just as important as the deeds themselves. This morning, we’re going to examine the difference between obeying God “by means of the flesh” and “by means of faith,” and we’ll see that the gospel message is the best motivation for our obedience.
