The Qualifications of Spiritual Leadership

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach… He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the…

Traits of Faithful Servants

I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you before long; but in case I am delayed, (I write) so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth. (1 Timothy 3:14–15…

Faith and a Good Conscience

Holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith… (1 Tim. 1:19 ESV)

…which sent you out to battle for the right armed only with your faith and a clear conscience. Some, alas, have laid these simple weapons…

Everything Is Good

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. (1 Tim. 4:4–5 ESV)

There were in the First Century church communities some who put strict limitations on certain…

The Mixture of Good and Evil

Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. (James 3:10 NKJV)

As it is with ourselves so it is with other believers — we are a mixture of good and evil.

Friendship with the World

You are like unfaithful wives, flirting with the glamour of this world, and never realising that to be the world’s lover means becoming the enemy of God! Anyone who deliberately chooses to love the world is thereby making himself God’s enemy. (James 4:4 Phillips Translation)

Deliverance and Life

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. (Col. 1:13–14 ESV)

In understanding salvation through Christ we must also wrestle with the fundamental problem…

Deacons

Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain. They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless. Their wives likewise must be…

Great Grace as a Pattern of Life

This statement is completely reliable and should be universally accepted: — “Christ Jesus entered the world to rescue sinners”. I realise that I was the worst of them all, and that because of this very fact God was particularly merciful to me. It was a kind of…

To Seek and to Save

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke 19:10 KJV)

The words of Christ are simple enough, one would think, in virtually any language to clearly teach us the purpose of His coming, the impact of His death and His life, and even the…