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  • 1 Timothy 2

    Historical Background: The Bible doesn’t provide every detail about the historical background of a certain passage, though everything that is necessary for what God wants to communicate is.  It isn’t necessary to know that…

  • 1 Timothy 1

    1. What is happening? (historical background) From verse 3 we see that Paul is writing from Macedonia to Timothy he left to continue the work in Ephesus.  Paul wants to leave Timothy some more…

  • Protected: Time-Management

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  • 2 Corinthians 1

    But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.  For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which…

  • 1 Corinthians 15

    Paul has heard that some of the people in the Corinthian church have been saying that there is no such thing as the resurrection of the dead. This opinion has popped up in history…

  • 1 Samuel 23

    16 And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God. The Refreshment of a Friend As Saul was seeking David’s life and David was living as…

  • Exodus 23

    2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: Don’t follow a mob to do wrong. Don’t twist the…

  • 1 Corinthians 9

    I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. This passage is frequented by many to teach the rights of a pastor to receive financial benefit from…

  • Imprisoned By Sin in the Mind (Mark 5)

    Imprisoned By Sin in the Mind (Mark 5)

    The man possessed by Legion seems to be in my eyes a special case.  Here is a man that no chain could bind and no man could tame.  His life was wandering the tombs…