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Elder Qualifications (3 of 3): His Children are Believers
Lee Nankervis Lee Nankervis

Elder Qualifications (3 of 3): His Children are Believers

In Titus 1:6-7, the ESV reads as follows, …if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach.

This leads us to an important question in the evaluation of a man’s fitness for eldership: do his kids have to be Christians?

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The Eucatastrophe of Emmanuel
Lee Nankervis Lee Nankervis

The Eucatastrophe of Emmanuel

What makes the baby in the manger and the shepherds and wise men and the star and everything about Christmas so wonderful is the dyscatastrophe–the grief and ruin–that preceded it. The incarnation did not happen in a vacuum–it came as the stunning twist to a long story, full of heartbreak and frustration.

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