1 Timothy

Covers 1 Timothy 2-3

Working through the question of women's roles in the church from 1 Timothy 2-3, landing — with help from Mike Winger's in-depth series — on women holding any role except the office of elder, and on the danger of trusting scholarly claims uncritically.

Covers 1 Timothy 5

How Paul's instructions about supporting widows assume an intimacy of shared life that a modern church would likely replace with forms and committees — a challenge to recover the radical, mutually known community the New Testament treats as baseline.

Covers 1 Timothy 5

How Paul's directions about widows and elders presuppose deep, ongoing knowledge of people's lives — community that was simply normative then but which the church today, drifting with a busy and isolated culture, must now actively fight to recover.

Covers 1 Kings 17 · 1 Timothy 6

Pairing Paul's warning in 1 Timothy 6 against the desire to be rich with the widow of Zarephath, who gave Elijah her last food and never ran out — God provides for those who put His kingdom first and trust Him, rather than those who hoard.

Covers 1 Timothy 6

Paul's warning that the love of money — not money itself — is a root of all kinds of evils, set against a culture engineered to keep us discontent, with the practical antidote of finding kingdom work you are genuinely excited to fund.