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Tripping the Light Fantastic

You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers … Continue reading

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Model Wives

1 In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, 2 as … Continue reading

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The Women Who Know Too Much

11Women must likewise be dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things. 1 Timothy 3:11 I recall the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Jimmy Stewart, The Man Who Knew Too Much. Here Dr. Benjamin McKenna and his wife … Continue reading

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Initial Thoughts on Church Leadership–1 Timothy 3:1-13

 1It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. 2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able … Continue reading

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A Woman’s Place–Caution, You Are About to Enter a No Spin Zone

 9Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, 10but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to … Continue reading

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Boldly Go Where No Man (of God) Normally Goes

 9Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, 10but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to … Continue reading

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