Contentment, Work, and Wealth

1 Timothy 6:1-19 | Building a Healthy Church | Trent Hunter Work and our wallets. These are two deceptively difficult dimensions of the Christian life. When we think of areas of temptation, these aren’t normally the first things on our mind. Yet these were areas on the mind of Paul, and he wanted them on Timothy’s mind as one shepherding the flock at Ephesus. And so this sermon will put these subjects on our mind. They aren’t easy subjects, for more reasons than one. There are some difficulties of historical context that we’ll need to consider. Even more difficult, the context of our own hearts. Abundant help is ours for every related challenge in the “sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Timothy 6:3).