I’ve been preaching through 1st Timothy with my church for a few months now.  Recently I’ve been sensing a weariness with the series—both on my part as well as on the part of my parishioners.

Here’s what we’ve covered so far:

1. An Introduction to 1st Timothy (Various passages)
2. The Test of Sound Doctrine—Part 1 (I Tim. 1:1-11)
3. The Test of Sound Doctrine—Part 2 (I Tim. 1:3-11)
4. Paul’s Personal Testimony (I Tim. 1:12-17)
5. Holding Faith and a Good Conscience (I Tim. 1:18-20)
6. Evangelistic Prayer in the Church (I Tim. 2:1-7)
7. How to Behave in the House of God (I Tim. 2:8-15)
8. The Man and the Ministry—Part 1 (I Tim. 3:1-7)
9. The Man and the Ministry—Part 2 (I Tim. 3:1-7)
10. The Man and the Ministry—Part 3 (I Tim. 3:1-7)
11. The Ministry of Deacons—Part 1 (I Tim. 3:8-13)
12. The Ministry of Deacons—Part 2 (I Tim. 3:8-13)
13. Paul’s Reminder to Timothy (I Tim. 3:14-16)

You can see from the references that we’ve just finished chapter 3.  That’s exactly halfway through the letter.  Because we’re halfway (and b/c of the weariness I mentioned), we’re going to take a brief halftime.

This past Lord’s Day I began what should be a three week hiatus from our series.  I plan on resuming and diving head first into I Tim. 4 on May 16th, the Sunday after Mother’s Day.

In the meantime we’re going to do a few different things with our sermons.  Yesterday we preached through Jesus’ series of teachings that centered upon the parable of the sower in Mark 4:1-32.

Here’s the audio for those two messages:

• The Parable of the Sower—Part 1 (Mark 4:1-20)
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• The Parable of the Sower—Part 2 (Mark 4:21-32)
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