Tag: character
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Seeming and Being – Genesis 27:11-15
Genesis 27:11-15And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver, and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. And his mother said unto him,…
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The Dignity of Letting Go – Genesis 13:9
Genesis 13:9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. There is such dignity in Abram here. He does not…
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Faith at Work — 1 Timothy 6:1
1 Timothy 6:1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. Paul now moves from church leadership to something far more ordinary but just as important. Work. Most believers do not spend their days preaching…
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The Kind of Man Who Serves — 1 Timothy 3:8
1 Timothy 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; Paul shifts from overseers to servants. Not the men up front teaching every week, but the ones making sure the lights are on, the tables are set, the widows are cared for, the needs…
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Proven at Home — 1 Timothy 3:3–5
1 Timothy 3:3–5 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of…
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Adorned With What Lasts — 1 Timothy 2:9–10
1 Timothy 2:9–10 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. Paul is not attacking beauty. He is redirecting it. The culture of his day, like ours, knew how…