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Don’t Muzzle Your Grain-Treading Ox-Pastor: 1 Timothy 5:17–18, Part 2
Paul sees a connection between hardworking pastors and oxen laboring in the field. Both deserve to be rewarded for their work.
1 year, 1 month ago
Honor Your Pastors by Paying Them Enough: 1 Timothy 5:17–18, Part 1
Pastors deserve to be paid for their labor. They spend themselves to edify the flock, so the flock should spend to provide for them.
1 year, 1 month ago
Compassion and the Christian Work Ethic: 1 Timothy 5:11–16, Part 2
The grace of God is not an excuse for laziness. It gives not only pardon for sin but power for Christ-honoring work.
1 year, 1 month ago
Why Not Enroll Younger Widows? 1 Timothy 5:11–16, Part 1
When Paul instructs Timothy to care for widows in the church, he tells him not to enroll younger widows in the support network. Why?
1 year, 1 month ago
An Official Order of Seasoned Widows: 1 Timothy 5:9–10
Older women who are seasoned in service, devoted to good works, chaste, courageous, and humble deserve special honor in the church.
1 year, 1 month ago
The ‘Christian’ Who Is Worse Than an Unbeliever: 1 Timothy 5:3–8, Part 4
When Paul says that professing believers who do not provide for their relatives deny the faith, what does he mean?
1 year, 1 month ago
True Widows Are Women of Hope and Prayer: 1 Timothy 5:3–8, Part 3
God shows special care for the most destitute among his people, such as widows without living relatives. How might local churches follow his example?
1 year, 1 month ago
Learning to Care for Your Widowed Mom: 1 Timothy 5:3–8, Part 2
Paul had no notion of godliness without fruit. Real godliness shows itself in the overflow of good works, especially to the neediest.
1 year, 2 months ago
Honor Your Widowed Mother with Financial Help: 1 Timothy 5:3–8, Part 1
God gives children as a reward to parents. In both the joy they bring and the long-term provision they give, godly children bless their father and mo…
1 year, 2 months ago
How a Pastor Corrects Men and Women, Old and Young: 1 Timothy 5:1–2, Part 2
Men and women, old and young are not the same — nor do they call for the same kind of pastoral care. Mature pastors exhort each one appropriately.
1 year, 2 months ago