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“As for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the…

“What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?” [1] Our contemporaries, and likely we ourselves, esteem the rugged individual. We imagine that we are distinct from everyone else. We are taught in elementary school that there is no one…

Ephesians 4:17-32 Stephen Caswell © 2005 First Century Baptism The put-on take-off terminology of Colossians 3 finds a literal parallel in first-century baptismal practice, where candidates approached the ordinance wearing old filthy clothes. These were stripped off as they entered the waters of baptism,…

While watching Christian television one day I saw an advertisement which was aimed at helping the viewer understand how that organization saw their ministry. In the ad bibles were placed on the ground in some unusual places. The voice announced that it was the charge of every believer to sow seeds through…