Tag: 1 Timothy 3

The Boldness of the Quiet Ones (1 Timothy 3:8–13)

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They don’t usually take the microphone. They don’t stand in the spotlight. But they carry the church on their shoulders just the same. The men Paul describes in 1 Timothy 3:8–13 aren’t platform-dwellers. They’re not preachers or policy-makers. They’re deacons. Servants. Quiet helpers who do holy work in dusty corners and behind-the-scenes spaces. But Paul …

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The Kind of Man God Trusts with His Church (1 Timothy 3:1-7)

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There are few roles on earth as weighty as the one Paul describes in 1 Timothy 3. It’s not a job, not a title, not even a calling in the way we sometimes overuse that word. It’s a trust. And it begins, not in the pulpit—but in the heart. “If a man desire the office …

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