Tag: focus
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Keep Your Eyes on Eternity — 1 Timothy 6:11–12
1 Timothy 6:11 But thou, O man of God… That phrase appears only a few times in Scripture. It is not handed out casually. When the Bible calls someone a “man of God,” it speaks of a person whose life is oriented toward the Lord rather than toward the noise of the world. Paul addresses…
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What Really Lasts — 1 Timothy 4:8
1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. Paul is not picking a fight with the gym. He is talking about proportion. The world Timothy lived in admired the body. Strength. Form. Discipline.…
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A Good Minister — 1 Timothy 4:6–7
1 Timothy 4:6–7 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. Paul makes it surprisingly simple. “If…