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Jun 10, 2026
Paul's five rapid charges — watch, stand fast in the faith, act like men, be strong, and let all be done in love —…
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Jun 10, 2026
In the Bible a "fool" is not the simple or unintelligent but the morally condemned, and Scripture marks out four classes — the atheist,…
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Jun 10, 2026
The eldership is an office of great responsibility, not mere honor: elders are warned against serving by compulsion, for money, or as lords; admonished…
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Jun 10, 2026
The New Testament shows elders appointed in every church — at Jerusalem, Ephesus, Philippi, and the cities of Crete — always a plurality serving…
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Jun 10, 2026
The New Testament reveals no single method for selecting elders, only that they were appointed; therefore any method that does not violate a New…
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Jun 10, 2026
The same office is named by several scriptural words — overseer, elder, shepherd, ruler, leader — and its qualifications, twenty in all from Timothy…
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Jun 10, 2026
God has placed elders in the church, named the office, and specified its qualifications in two lists — 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1…
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Jun 10, 2026
The eldership did not pass away with the age of miraculous gifts; because elders were not inspired men but qualified men, because their work…
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Jun 10, 2026
Jesus' attitude toward His enemies — holding no grudges, bearing injury without malice, returning kindness for hostility, and forgiving freely — is a window…
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Jun 10, 2026
God has always required His people to give; since we own nothing but merely steward what is already His, the Christian gives himself first…
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Jun 10, 2026
The dangers that ruin a life are usually not the great and obvious ones but the small, unseen ones — little faults of conduct,…
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Jun 10, 2026
Two Deborahs appear in Scripture: Rebekah's nurse (Gen. 35:8), and the prophetess of the book of Judges. The name means "a bee." This outline…
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