All Dads are Pastors

The qualifications for elders (pastors) and deacons listed here (below) and in 1 Timothy 3 are not just for the “professional” ministers!  Some men may think or say that since they are not in, or striving to be in, a leadership position that these lists don’t apply to them.  I believe that is a cop-out [...]

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Everyday Preachers

“preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,” – 2Ti 4:2-3 ESV
Paul here is giving [...]

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Truly Persecuted?

“Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,…” – 2 Tim 3:12 ESV
We live in a much different time and culture than that of Paul and Timothy.  Though some modern cultures still physically persecute and even kill Christians, the one we live in isn’t much of a comparison [...]

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Tarps and Kiddie Pools

I have been having such a great Father’s Day week!  My wife is going out of her way to do special things for me, my daughter has given me a card at least once a day this whole week (sometimes more), and my 3 year old son shows his affection by repeatedly trying to bloody [...]

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