There’s a line tucked quietly into Paul’s letter to Timothy, simple enough to skim, powerful enough to shift the way we see our calling: “Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father...” That’s how family talks. When Paul wrote to Timothy, he wasn’t giving a business model for the church. He wasn’t structuring …
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There’s something in every one of us that wants to be seen. Not for the sake of applause, but for the quiet confirmation that we matter. That we’re making a difference. But what do you do when you're young and they don’t take you seriously? When you’re faithful but still feel invisible? Paul knew what …
Some truths do not age.They do not wrinkle with time or bend beneath culture.They stand, quiet and strong, like old trees with roots deep in something unshakable. Paul’s words to Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:6–11 feel like that. Timeless. Steady. Unshaken. The apostle isn’t interested in ministry glitter or cultural applause. He tells his young …
It begins with a whisper. A subtle, spiritual shift—just slight enough to be dismissed, just spiritual enough to be deceptive. Paul warned Timothy: “The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith.” Not in mass exodus. Not all at once. But some—one here, one there—slipping away from the moorings …
Continue reading How False Teaching Distorts God’s Gifts (1 Timothy 4:1–5)
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