Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth wonders. Do you get tired of hearing this kind of condemnation?

You need to try harder. You need to check off the things on this list.

But listen to the gospel. You need Jesus. Every single one of us is hopeless and helpless.

This is the Reviva Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Adorn. For March 9th, 2026, I'm Dana Gresh.

If you're reading through the Bible with us this year, we're in Joshua, chapters 18 through

21. Each of us needs older women in our lives to share wisdom. We need sisters to encourage

us in the faith, and we also need spiritual daughters to invest in.

Today, Nancy DeMoss Walgermouth is going to show you how to develop those kinds of relationships.

She shared this message a few years ago at a revive conference. Let's listen.

We're going to put three verses under a microscope. Titus chapter 2 verses 3 through 5.

Before we start unpacking all the different parts and pieces of that passage, I want to

give us a context for the whole passage and a sense of the bigger picture.

Now the book Titus, as you probably know, was written by the Apostle Paul to a pastor named Titus,

the pastor of a tiny startup fledgling church on the island of Crete.

And this church faced a lot of challenges.

They had external threats because the Roman Empire headed by Nero

was breathing down their neck and threatening to wipe out Christianity. And then there were

internal threats. There were false teachers who were promoting teachings and philosophies that were contrary to the scripture.

And Titus tells us that these teachers were leading whole families astray.

They were upsetting whole families by teaching these things.

So here's this pastor of this new little church.

And how is this church supposed to survive, much less

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