We live in a society swimming in self-sufficiency, and yet is sinking. And because the church can too easily imbibe culture from the world, we end up swimming in self-sufficiency too… and drowning. So, we need 1st Timothy 2:1-7 - where we need to be, and we can be, reliant in prayer.

The Lord knows that His servants grow weary. He knows Christians become discouraged. He knows churches face pressures from false teaching, compromise, temptation, and fear. And so here we have this encouragement - wage the good warfare, by holding faith in Jesus.

Christianity begins with confession. Not merely confession of individual sins, but confession of what we truly are apart from grace.

Our biblical pursuit is to have healthy doctrine and so we need to teach the law, lawfully. This is all for the love of our hearts’ affections to be for Christ himself.

When it comes to doctrine, when it comes to the truth about God, salvation, Christ, and the Christian life — we don’t do different doctrine.