Orchard Church | Pastor Jim Jackson

Mary grew up in a rural area of northern Israel in Nazareth and came from a family with no great social influence. Like most young women of her time, she would have been happy to marry a man she loved, start a family, and please God by being the wife and mother she was called to be. While not special by cultural...

Timothy was told that Paul’s scriptural instruction wasn’t optional to tell the church nor optional for the church to obey. He was to command (Gr. paraggellō, ‘to transmit an order or charge’) and teach (Gr. didaskō, ‘to impart instruction’) God’s word without reservation. Pastors are servants of God...

Once Paul exposed aspects of false teaching, which replace or add to the Gospel and Christian living—like forbidding marriage or abstaining from foods—he described how to avoid it (1 Tim. 4:1- 3). Timothy was to be made strong (Gr. entrephō, ‘to physically nourish, train the mind’) by the ‘words of faith’...