Author: ARCHIVE
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Genuine Discipleship
Luke 6:46-49 Jesus addresses His disciples about the nature of what it means to follow Him. Some made a true confession but their application was lacking. In this message, Jesus makes it clear that the true disciple is one who confesses the truth about Christ and seeks to put their faith into practice in life.
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Stand Firm!
1 Timothy 1:1-3 As Paul addresses his disciple Timothy in a personal letter, he begins by highlighting his own apostolic credentials. By prefacing his instructions and admonitions to Timothy with reference to his office, Paul was taking aim at the wolves and false teachers who were rising up in the ranks of the Ephesian church.…
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Conduct Governed By Truth
1 Timothy 3:14-16 As Paul concludes his exposition of church office, he places it in the context of rules for church government. The entire discussion of chapter 3 and likely even chapter 2 presented a series of governing principles for conduct in the house of God and Paul makes it clear that these rules are…
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Excellent Service
There are 2 things we learn about church office from 1 Timothy 3: Christ would have His church served and He would have it served well. One can hardly read over the qualifications of church officers in these verses without being struck with the fact that service in Christ’s church isn’t just for volunteers! What…
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A Biblical Defense of Women Deacons
In setting forth qualifications for deacons, Paul pivots toward addressing qualifications for “women.” Some have argued that he was referring to the wives of deacons and thus setting forth a qualification for married male deacons. The structure of the text indicates that Paul addressed deacon qualifications in general in verses 8-10 and that in verse…