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1 & 2 Timothy
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Women in ministry in the New Testament
The Assemblies of God Network of Women Ministers evening with Craig at AGTS at Evangel University
Women in ministry
People on different sides of the issue usually start from different passages. Here I look at the passages…
Church government(s): Who’s right?
The New Testament offers some guidance for church government, but different churches have developed it in different ways.…
Culture Shapes What We Think is Cultural and Leaves Us All with Blind Spots
Almost everyone today recognizes that at least some texts address local situations. Most Christians, for example, do not…
Women in Ministry (46 minutes)
This video is a lecture I was invited to give at Laidlaw College in New Zealand.
Women in Ministry
Twenty years ago, Enrichment Journal (from the Assemblies of God) invited me to write an article in support…
Why doesn’t the Bible talk more about exercise?
Why doesn’t the Bible talk more about exercise, since it’s so important for health? 1 Timothy may allow…
If exercise is so important, why doesn’t the Bible mention it more?
The motto of one very successful Bible college basketball team was, “For bodily exercise profiteth” (1 Tim 4:8),…
When you have to stand alone
“Wrap up your garment for action. Get up and tell them everything that I myself command you. Don’t…
“Worse than an unbeliever” – the necessity of providing for widows in 1 Timothy 5
Here Paul may refer to widows in general, but he probably refers to an order of widows who …