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By LANE BLACKMER
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LANSING — Some education officials want to give incentives that follow early high school graduates to higher education institutions.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels proposed the idea, and Michael Flanagan, superintendent of public instruction for the Michigan Department of Education, said he wants the state to do something similar.
"I believe it's about half of the kids that could complete high school within three years," he said. "Students could get a head start on college, and some of that money could go with them."
Flanagan said it would benefit students to be educated at their own pace, meaning some could graduate in three years by taking online or summer classes. Such a program could also enable students to use the aid that otherwise would have gone to their school district at a college or community college.
Michael Hansen, president of the Michigan Community College Association, said he likes the concept.
"I don't see any adverse issues with the community colleges," he said.
Hansen said on average it costs about $7,500 per student for one year of high school. That would pay for up to three years of tuition at a community college.
But he said a more sensible approach would be to cut that amount in half and allow students to use it.
Hansen's worry, however, is that a shift in funds would take away money that public schools need.
"Our goal would not to be to try to negatively impact the K-12 community," said Hansen.
Deedee Starkley, director of early college at Lake Michigan College (LMC) in Benton Harbor, said such an intitiative would give better opportunities to students to seek education after high school.
"The drawback for some students is that they don't have the financial resources" to pay for higher learning, said Starkley.
Flanagan said if Michigan were to adopt an incentive-based graduation policy, it could finance up to a year of a student's college education.
He also said that students learn at different paces, and the policy would also encourage a merit-based rather than a time-based education system.
Jan Ellis of the communications office at the Education Department said legislation has not yet been proposed to put such a system in place, but high schools are currently doing other things to speed up graduation.
For example, high school students can participate in middle college and dual enrollment programs. Middle college are 5-year schools for high schoolers on college campuses that allow students to graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree. Dual enrollment allows students to take college classes while attending high school.
A high school pays for those students' college credit and tuition.
Starkley said she favors legislation that would allow high school students to graduate at their own pace and channel the money to pay for their higher education.
"The more opportunities they have, the more apt a student is to continue on and pursue post-secondary education when they leave high school," she said.
LMC allows 32 high schools to participate in its dual enrollment opportunities and has the largest early learning high school program in Michigan, she said.
LMC has 970 high school students earning college credits this semester.
Starkley said one or two dual enrollment students graduate from high school with an LMC associate's degree in hand every couple of years.
From 2007-08 to 2008-09, dual enrollment participation rose by a little more than 1 percent statewide. About 7 percent of eligible students participated in dual enrollment last year, Ellis said.
Ellen Hasse, business manager of Berrien Springs Public Schools, said the district would favor such legislation, and almost half its senior class is currently enrolled at LMC.
The district plans to implement a system in which students could graduate early or late if they chose.
Another benefit in allowing high schoolers to graduate early, Starkley said, is that some students who are less successful in the classroom are more interested in college courses. A hands-on curriculum that may not be offered in high schools, like welding and mechanics, gives those who want different career pathways more push to pursue higher learning.
"They're told they're not college material," she said. "Suddenly, that light bulb goes off and they're acting like college students."
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Female federal employees earn on average 87 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts, according to a new review from the Office of Personnel Management.
Still, the pay gap between men and women in the white-collar federal workforce has dropped significantly over the past 20 years. In 1992, female feds earned just 70 cents for every dollar earned by male employees. Another sign of progress: Across many individual occupations and grades, men and women now earn comparable levels of pay, according to OPM's new report.
"But while our report shows the progress that we've made, we won't be satisfied until women working in federal jobs earn the same as their male counterparts, at every level," OPM Director Katherine Archuleta said in a blog post announcing the agency's new governmentwide strategy on advancing equal pay.
OPM's review found much of the continued pay disparity between male and female feds can be explained by their presence in different occupational categories.
For example, while women have a 10 percent lower average starting salary compared to men, they tend to be over-represented in occupations with lower maximum salaries and under-represented in higher-paying occupations, such as the science, technology engineering and math (STEM) fields.
OPM's new strategy calls on agencies to develop recruitment and outreach strategies to increase the number of female employees in areas where they are currently under-represented, including supervisory and management roles and in STEM fields. It also aims to clarify the flexibilities that agencies have in setting starting pay levels under the General Schedule system and to share best practices on how to do so in a gender-neutral way.
By grade level, OPM found no significant gaps between male and female salaries. However, there are disproportionately more female federal employees in lower-paying grade levels with lower average starting salaries, according to the review.
Another explanation for lower starting salaries?
Under the GS system, hiring managers have the authority to set pay for new hires above the initial first step of a grade level. OPM found that this discretionary authority is used more for male employees, and, in general, is more heavily used in occupations that are male-dominated.
The pay gap narrows once women reach the managerial ranks. Female managers earn 95.6 cents for every dollar earned by male managers. The gap virtually disappears for women in the top ranks of the Senior Executive Service. Female SESers are paid 99.2 cents for each dollar paid to male SES members.
However, women only make up a third of federal employees in these supervisory or managerial posts.
"That's why we have made it a top priority to mentor women who hold GS-14 and GS- 15 positions to advance into SES jobs," Archuleta said.
However, in contrast to the findings on starting salaries and and base pay, OPM's report noted that white-collar female federal workers are not necessarily struggling to climb the career ladder.
Women received out-of-cycle, "quality step" increases based on outstanding performance more frequently than men did, according to the report. Female federal employees, on average, were also more likely to receive promotions than their male counterparts, according to the report.
OPM says no changes to GS system needed.
In addition to clarifying agencies' pay-setting responsibilities and boosting recruitment strategies, OPM's new strategy calls on agencies to report and post salary tables for those positions that fall outside the GS system.
OPM said it would also work with agencies to come up with best practices and guidance for increasing promotion opportunities for part-time employees, a majority of whom are women.
However, the agency said it's not recommending any governmentwide changes to the GS system.
"After a comprehensive review of agency reports, there were no indicators that changes to the GS classification system would assist in addressing any gender pay gap," the report stated.
Last May, President Barack Obama memo tasking OPM with studying whether agency practices or the pay system contribute to a pay inequalities between men and women.
This week, Obama signed a presidential memo requiring federal contractors to provide data to the Labor Department showing employee salaries by gender and race. Obama also issued an executive order prohibiting contractors from retaliating against workers who discuss their pay.

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Castillo, who migrated to New Mexico from California in June of last year, came to the Duke City for her residency in emergency medicine at the University of New Mexico Hospital. Having only briefly visited the city once before when she came out for an interview, when she first arrived in the city, she felt lost.
"The most important thing I wanted to know is where the good Asian food was, especially Filipino cuisine. Then I found what I believe is the only Filipino restaurant in town: Filipino Home Cooking (533 Vermont NE), which is a very authentic, family-oriented place. You can find the Filipino community through that restaurant; on Friday night they have karaoke, and on Sundays they teach traditional Filipino folk dance.
"Another really great Asian restaurant is the May Café (111 Louisiana SE); they have awesome Vietnamese food, the same quality as restaurants in San Francisco, with a big, authentic menu. And for groceries, Talin Market (88 Louisiana SE) is a really good adaptation for a place without a huge population for any specific ethnicity."
On a side note, Castillo also recommends Le Crepe Michel (400 San Felipe SW) in Old Town for brunch-lovers, and Ten Thousand Waves (3451 Hyde Park) in Santa Fe for anyone with a crick in their neck or a few extra hours to spare.
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World Cup preparation plans changed immediately in response to a schedule almost universally seen as logistically and competitively brutal on and off the field next summer in Brazil.
After Friday's draw included a game in the steamy Amazon rain forest at the height of the summer, plans to play a tune-up in either Boston or New York were scrapped in favor of one in humid Miami.
Officials backed calls for two-minute timeouts to allow players to hydrate during games, which would represent an unprecedented adaption to climatic conditions for a sport with few lengthy breaks.
Pessimistic officials also fretted the quality of the opponents in one of several tough groups thrown up by the draw could mean a swift return home. One went so far as to wryly draw a finger across his throat in public in the heat of the moment.
"It's not the group we would have plucked out for ourselves," one team representative said. "It's going to be very tough."
If that sounds like the reaction of U.S. men's national team officials to the draw, think again.
That's how officials in England responded to their team being pulled out of the pot along with Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica.
It was one of several contenders among the eight groups of four teams for the so-called "Group of Death."
Mexico, which squeaked into the World Cup only after winning a two-game playoff against lightweight New Zealand, won't relish playing the likes of five-time winners Brazil along with unpredictable Croatia and Cameroon.
The U.S. has the toughest travel schedule of any team — a switch from four years ago in South Africa when it was blessed with the easiest, U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati observed — and counts World Cup contenders Germany, Cristiano Ronaldo-led Portugal and bogey team Ghana as its group opponents, it's time to suck it up.
"It couldn't get any more difficult or any bigger, but that's what the World Cup is about," U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said. "It's a real challenge and we'll take it."
Publicly at least, Klinsmann has dismissed the suggestion the U.S. is an underdog.
But the reality is it definitely is. And that means little pressure will be on an insulated team accompanied by what presumably will be a minimal number of American fans prepared to invest time and money in the lengthy, supposedly largely hopeless trek around Brazil during the group stage.
Pressure is England being just one more goalkeeping slip away from gifting the U.S. a stunning victory four years ago in South Africa.
Pressure is Germany being just one limb on a goal line away from conceding a potentially calamitous goal to an immature U.S. team that included a 20-year-old Landon Donovan in the 2002 quarterfinals.
The rest of the world doesn't take the U.S. team as seriously as fans here do anyway, so if that deflects attention and expectations farther from the U.S., that's something the Americans should see as an advantage rather than just freaking out about the inhospitable draw.
There's one more thing we should keep in mind.
Who really believes any nation has a chance against a five-time World Cup winner hosting the tournament in front of its adoring fans and capable of playing the most intoxicating brand of soccer on the planet?
Unless, of course, Brazil wilts under the pressure and beats itself.
Also …
The U.S. reportedly is the opponent for the pre-World Cup game England will play in Miami. … FIFA changed the times of several World Cup games, including the U.S. game against Portugal in sweltering Manaus on June 22. That now will be played at 3 p.m. Pacific time, which is in the evening in Brazil.
For more local soccer news, read the 100 Percent Soccer blog at www.insidesocal.com/soccer.


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Kickoff Against Catamounts 7 p.m. At Reese Stadium On Friday
Vermont at Yale, Friday – 7 p.m.
Yale at Boston University, Sunday – 2 p.m.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Last weekend, the Yale women's soccer team played back-to-back games against Big East opponents. This weekend the Bulldogs will take their shot against a pair of America East teams. Yale hosts Vermont Friday at 7 p.m. at Reese Stadium and then travels to Boston University for a 2 p.m. kickoff on Sunday.
Yale (2-2-1) is coming off an impressive 2-0 victory over Quinnipiac on Tuesday. The Bulldogs limited the Bobcats to only six shots, none of which were on goal. It was Yale's third shutout of the season.
Vermont (2-3-2) will be playing its third straight Ivy opponent. The Catamounts lost to Dartmouth 2-1 in overtime on Sept. 8 and then tied Brown 1-1 on Sept. 10. UVM's six goals have been scored by six different players.
Yale and Vermont are playing for the first time since 1995. The Catamounts lead the all-time series 9-5
Boston University (6-2-1) also is an unfamiliar opponent. The last time the Bulldogs faced the Terriers was 2007. BU is coming off an impressive 3-0 victory over Harvard on Wednesday night. The Terriers also have a 2-0 victory over then No. 8 Portland and a 1-1 tie with then fourth-ranked Boston College on their resume.
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The annual Hope College golf outing, the "Bob DeYoung Hope Classic," will be held on Monday, June 18, at Ravines Golf Club in Saugatuck.
A 35-year tradition, the long-running event was renamed in 2000 for Bob DeYoung, who retired in June of that year as vice president for college advancement after working at Hope since 1965 in admissions, student development and advancement. DeYoung had been instrumental in establishing the outing.
The golf outing's format is 18-hole scramble with foursome play. Sponsored by the Hope College Alumni Association, the event is open to all friends of the college.
Players may sign up as singles, in pairs or as part of a foursome. Singles and pairs will be combined into foursomes by the college's Office of Alumni and Parent Relations. All foursomes will be placed in one of four divisions based on the team members' average 18-hole scores.
To accommodate players, there will be two shotgun starts, at 7:45 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Registration for the morning begins at 7 a.m. and includes breakfast before the round and an Arnie's Cottage Cook Out Lunch at noon, and is $85 per person. Registration for the afternoon begins at noon and includes the cookout lunch, and is $100 per person.
The event is underwritten by PNC; Elzinga & Volkers; Buiten and Associates; Creative Dining Services; Fishbeck Thompson Carr and Huber; GDK Construction; GMB Architecture + Engineering; Hilliard Lyons; Kerkstra Pre-Cast; Lakewood Construction; Lighthouse Group; and Watkins Ross. The net proceeds from the sponsorships and entry fees will be applied to the Robert '56 and Marcia '55 DeYoung Scholarship Fund at Hope for students pursuing teacher-education studies.
Reservations must be made by Monday, June 11. Those interested in additional information or making reservations should call the college's Office of Alumni and Parent Relations at (616) 395-7250. Additional information is also available online at www.hope.edu/alumni
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2nd Update, May 16, 2014 – Following a swift and unified outcry by Faith Driven Consumers and fair-minded Americans across the nation, SunTrust today reversed its earlier decision to drop the Benham brothers – citing respect for the fundamental constitutional rights of all Americans. Faith Driven Consumer is grateful to all who collectively raised their voices against religious viewpoint discrimination in a united call for tolerance, fairness, and equality for all Americans. This also applies to those who hold to a biblical worldview, which includes respect for life and natural marriage.
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I am writing regarding your network's intolerant and discriminatory decision to cancel "Flip It Forward" from HGTV's fall 2014 lineup because of the pro-life and pro-natural marriage faith-driven beliefs of stars David and Jason Benham.
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Off-season Jets: Woody Johnson, G.O.P. stalwart, sees Tim Tebow as a Christie-like figure
A weekly column about what the Giants and Jets are doing when they're not playing football.
It was only a matter of time before the Republicans took ownership of Tim Tebow. And Jets owner Woody Johnson, a major G.O.P. donor who once had Sarah Palin up to his owner's box, was just the guy to do it.
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In an interview with Fox Business News—most of which consisted of Johnson and reporter David Asman praising Governor Chris Christie's pro-big business policies—Johnson said of Tebow, "He's a lot like Governor Christie. He is what he is. He's not afraid to tell you what he believes in. And he will, I think, be a very positive influence in the locker room and I think he's gonna help us win a lot of games."
(On the very day Johnson praised the authenticity of both men, Christie had been caught in a lie over why he killed the long-awaited ARC tunnel project. But never mind.)
Johnson spent the rest of the interview downplaying and debunking two widely held assumptions about the Tebow trade: That it was Johnson who had pursued Tebow, and not the football brain trust of Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and coach Rex Ryan; and that the rationale for the trade was financial rather than football-related.
"Jerseys aren't really our main line of business," Johnson told Asman.
(It's true: Most revenue from jersey sales is pooled collectively among league owners and players.)
"Our main line of business is winning games," he said. "I expect if we do well, we will continue to sell. We're pretty well sold out on P.S.L.s despite what you read about."
Leaving aside the open question of P.S.L. sales, it's pretty unlikely that money was the primary motivation for the Tebow trade. Woody Johnson is one of the richest people in the country, a man whose family routinely ranks in the Forbes Top 10 Richest Families List with a net worth of $13 billion. Even the most outlandishly optimistic forecasters of Tebow's potential value would admit that whatever he earns the Jets now and in the future amounts to peanuts relative to the family fortune. Besides, as with most teams and their owners, the Jets are more Johnson's vanity project than they are a source of income.
It's reasonable to argue that Johnson did this for buzz, or some businessman's sense that is was a way to keep his team relevant after the Giants just won the Super Bowl.
But what he said is as true as it is trite: Ultimately, this trade will be judged by—or more precisely, subsumed by—whether or not the Jets win games on the field.
MARK SANCHEZ AND SANTONIO HOLMES ARE BUDDIES again. They went out for dinner earlier in the off-season, and worked out together this past week in Orlando, along with Dustin Keller and Patrick Turner.
This follows a season in which Holmes griped about his role in the offense and went public with complaints about the team's shaky offensive line, which had been solid for years leading up to the last campaign. Things hit a nadir on the final week of the season: Holmes skipped out of Sanchez's after-practice study session between quarterbacks and receivers, and then complained his way through the team's dismal loss to end the season in Miami. It all culminated when Holmes got into a sideline shouting match with Wayne Hunter, the spirited right tackle, who had a dreadful season.
But Holmes' contract dictates that he and the Jets are stuck with each other, for better or worse: Holmes is guaranteed $7.75 million this year and $7.5 million for 2013. These are the headaches a team subjects itself to when it embraces players who have worn out their welcome elsewhere.
Holmes had his least productive season last year, setting career lows in yards and yards-per-catch, and his catch rate of 50 percent was moderately worse than his career rate of around 55 percent. The burning question is whether this augurs a decline in Holmes' skills or whether it was a just a function of the Jets' disjointed offense, which for the first time in years lacked an adequate running game.
The decline of the running game can't be overstated: After finishing 8th, 5th, and 8th in yards per rushing attempt going back to 2008, the Jets plummeted to 30th last year. In 2010, they averaged 4.4 yards per carry; in 2011, they averaged 3.8.
Without the run game to set the table offensively, the Jets were taken out of what they wanted to do, like throw to Holmes. But new offensive coordinator Tony Sparano has promised a return the Ground and Pound philosophy, which, if successful, will bring with it the return of Tone Time.
THE JETS ARE HOPING TO LOCK UP DUSTIN KELLER to a long-term deal, ESPN's Rich Cimini reports. Keller is signed through this year on his rookie contract, but will be an unrestricted free agent next year.
Despite their setback of a season, the Jets are clearly still in win-now mode, and Keller is an indispensable part of the Jets as currently constituted. He led the team in catches (65) and receiving yards (815) last year, thus fully blossoming into the receiver the Jets envisioned when they made him a first round pick in 2008.
But if the Jets re-up on Keller, they'll essentially be paying him from his age-29 season forward (he turns 29 in September of 2013). Even though he's trending upward as a receiver, his run-blocking has always been below average for his position (Pro Football Focus ranked him 28th out of 32 tight ends who were on the field more than half the time last year, and he has never ranked above average.)
Keller's a good, deserving player. But the decision to sign him to a long-term contract is not an obvious one.
FINALLY, A PLAYER DEVIATED FROM THE BROMIDES and actually said some critical things about Tim Tebow.
Denver wide receiver Demaryius Thomas came out and said what many people probably assumed: That it's a pain in the ass for a wide receiver, whose job it is to catch precisely timed and placed passes, to have Tebow as his quarterback.
"I wasn't getting no balls and you had to make some of these plays where some players were open and he is not making the throws, but I don't want to talk bad about Tim," he said.
He added, "You would have people calling him out, saying, 'Tim, you gotta make that throw. You gotta read the defenses better.'"
He also said he found the media orgy that surrounded Tebow's every move annoying.
"Everything on ESPN was all about Tim," Thomas said. "That bothered some players, too, because they would say, 'Tim Tebow Time.' I felt like it was a team thing. If it wasn't for the defense most of the time, there wouldn't be no supposed 'Tim Tebow Time.'"
This last knock is a bit unfair: Tebow didn't court the spotlight and was always quick to praise and thank his teammates first (or second, actually, after he praised and thanked Jesus).
But Thomas' sentiments, while harsh, amount to a heretofore unspoken flipside to Tebowmania. Having a quarterback whose completion percentage is 46.5 percent—13.5 percent worse than the league average—results in wide receivers whose numbers suffer. And a team that scraps together a decent record despite having a quarterback who completes 46.5 percent of his passes, only to have their efforts chalked up to that quarterback's magic pixie dust, yields a bunch of players who haven't gotten the credit they deserve.
According to a FoxSports report, Woody Johnson wanted the Jets on the show and Rex Ryan didn't.
Apparently, the Denver Broncos were offered the gig, but they turned HBO down. The Jacksonville Jaguars offered to do the gig, but HBO turned the Jaguars down.
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This morning I want you to open your Bible to 1 Timothy, 1 Timothy. As Bob said, tonight we'll finish up our series on Glorifying God, Back to the Basics, and I hope you'll be here for the final message, and it will be the final one. We just have a few things to wrap up in that series that we've been looking at and what a wonderful time we've had. But for this morning and beginning today, we're going to be for the next months and years, no doubt, looking at the pastoral epistles, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus. And I have had an eager heart in the months and months of preparation to begin to teach these books and am now very excited that we can begin together this morning.
We're going to be looking just to the introduction and the first two verses as we begin. Would you look at your Bible? I'll read them to you as a setting for what we're going to be saying this morning. First Timothy chapter 1 beginning at verse 1: "Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the commandment of God our Savior and Christ Jesus our hope, unto Timothy, genuine child in the faith, grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord."
I want you to notice one phrase which will be the key phrase for our discussion of this greeting this morning. It is the phrase at the beginning of verse 2, "Timothy, genuine child in the faith." I want to talk about what it is to be a true child in the faith. Just as the supreme joy for a parent is to give birth to a physical child who is all that the parent's heart could ever hope for and to see that child mature and grow and develop and become fully the person, the person that you prayed he or she would become, reflecting all the perfection of human physical characteristic and all the possibility of character, just as that is the supreme joy for a parent, so the supreme joy for a spiritual parent is to be able to say about someone that they are a genuine child in the faith. Just as you would hope as a Christian, as a Christ-exalting, God-honoring Spirit-filled Christian parent that your child would be all that a physical child could be in the fullness of physical and mental and emotional and social stature, so it is that spiritually all of us would desire to raise one who would be truly a genuine child in the faith. That is a real reflection of our spiritual life and values. And for Paul to so designate Timothy sets Timothy aside in a very special way. He was Paul's very genuine reflection. He was a true child of the Apostle in terms of his spiritual life. He was all that any discipler could ever hope for, could ever pray for. He was what Paul would have wished him to be in every sense. He is the child of Paul's ministry. He is the protege, he is the offspring, he is the spiritual son which Paul has raised and he is reflective of all that Paul would desire that he should be.
And it is to this marvelous man that this and the second epistle is written. For us it is the beginning of a new adventure, an adventure with the Word of God, an in depth study of rich and profound truth that are going to come to us, first of all, in 1 Timothy. The epistle itself deals with many great subjects, subjects which were needful for Timothy to know in his ministry to the church. It deals with, for example, error in the church and how that error is to be confronted, the proper pattern for church leadership, the importance of sound theology and the centrality of teaching is a major theme, the call for godliness and holiness in living and ministry, the proper attitudes and roles of men and women in the church, how to deal with discipline in the church, how to confront issues in the church, how to deal with a sinning leader in the church, the correction of problems that threaten the church. These are themes dealt with in 1 Timothy, also in 2 Timothy and also in Titus.
I might suggest to you that the key verse in 1 Timothy is chapter 3 verse 15, you might want to look at it. We're just going to get a good overview today. First Timothy 3:15, Paul says, "If I tarry long that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." And in verse 14 he says that's why I'm writing in order that you may know how to behave in the church. The first epistle to Timothy then is all about behavior in the church. It is all about the church and how the church is to conduct itself and how its leaders are to focus on the church. It's an essential essential epistle.
Now as I said, as we begin to look at this great teaching on how we are to behave and how the leaders are to behave in the church, we begin with a key phrase in verse 2 "true child or genuine child in the faith." Now that particular phrase will act for us as a doorway through which we will enter an overview of the whole letter.
Now let's look at a little bit of the introduction itself. It is a standard format. Suppose I need only to remind you that when the New Testament writers wrote their epistles they did not invent some new format, they used the existing Greco-Roman format for letters and that format you see here. It begins with the author and his identification and then the recipient and his identification. In this case, Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Savior and Christ Jesus our hope, that's the author and his identification and then it's always followed by the recipient, Timothy and his identification, true child in the faith. And then comes a greeting or salutation, grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. You'll notice in both cases where you have Christ Jesus in the Authorized it says Jesus Christ, the better manuscripts reverse those and that's the way I read them. So it is a standard format. It is a very simple format. It never really varies in Paul's letters. The only thing he may do is extrapolate a little bit on who he is. Instead of just saying Paul an Apostle, sometimes he'll say Paul an Apostle, and then he'll kind of define that as he does here. And he has something in mind when he does that. But that is the traditional contemporary format for a letter. It is not an unusual one.
So, in a normal way Paul writes a letter to Timothy. It is first and foremost, and you need to keep this in mind when you study the Scripture, it is first and foremost a letter from one man to another man. While we look at it as a book of the Bible and its reaching far beyond its original destination in the life of Timothy, we must go back to the realization that it began as a single man's passionate call to another man in ministry that needed to be applied to the situation in existence. And so we go back to that and that's how we understand what a book in the Bible means. If we try to interpret it only in a contemporary setting, we are at a loss as to its significance. So we go back and we ask what was happening in the life of Paul, what was happening in the life of Timothy, what was going on in the church in Ephesus where Timothy was then working and what was it that caused this letter to be written the way it was written? And out of that we draw those things which are applicable to our own understanding.
First of all, may I note the name Paul? A familiar name to any student of the New Testament, Paulus in Latin, a favorite name among Cilicians and Paul was from Tarsus a city in Cilicia. It means little or small and it may have been an indication that at his birth he was small and it may be an indication that even then when the letter was written he was small...a man not of particularly striking stature nor of particularly marked appearance, in fact he was criticized. If you read 2 Corinthians chapter 10 verses 1 and 10, read that section there in between if you will, but particularly verse 1 and 10, it indicates to us that Paul did not have anything about him that was particularly striking. And the sort of athletic minded bodily preoccupied Greeks would have looked down on his rather groveling slavish common low stature. They use the word tapeinos in 2 Corinthians 10, one to refer to him and it would be an indication of his weak unimpressive rather sickly and small stature. So it may be that he was small from the very beginning. But his name Paul sort of loses that initial significance and he becomes to us a man of tremendous stature, a man of comprehensive capability, a man uniquely used by God in the history of redemption, a man who stands head and shoulders above all men. No matter what he was physically, spiritually he is to us a giant and the very name Paul when you say it sort of belongs in massive granite block letters.
And so it is Paul who also was named Saul. And it was not uncommon for people in that particular culture to have both a Greek name, Paul, and a Jewish name, Saul, especially because he was a Jew. His father was a Jew and though he was born in a Greek-Roman environment outside of the land of Israel, born in Tarsus, born in a city which was a part of the Roman Empire, he became when he was born a citizen of Rome by birth, his father being a Roman citizen. So it was natural for him to have a Jewish name because he was of the tribe of Benjamin and the most prominent person in the tribe of Benjamin was Saul, so he was given that name, but it was also Paul and that was the name to identify him with the Greek-Roman culture into which he was born. He is called Saul, by the way, in the book of Acts until the thirteenth chapter and the ninth verse where he first begins to embark on his ministry to the Gentiles. And from them on he is never called Saul again. He was Saul in a Jewish context until he became the Apostle to the Gentiles, from then on he is known as Paul.
Now his background is very easy to identify, and I only want to do it briefly. Philippians chapter 3 and you can study this yourself, but he gives a testimony as to his background and who he was. Philippians 3:5 he says, "Circumcised the eighth day," in other words, a very traditional and orthodox Jew went through circumcision, "born of the stock of Israel of the tribe of Benjamin and Hebrew of the Hebrews." In other words, he was fully Jewish not only in terms of his physiology, but also in terms of his commitment. He was zealous for his Judaism. As touching the law he became a Pharisee. His relationship to the law was not one of looseness or indifference, he was an avid legalistic Pharisee. In terms of his zeal for his Pharisaic Judaistic religion, he was so zealous that he persecuted the church which he saw as a threat to Judaism. In terms of the righteousness which is in the law he was outwardly blameless. He conformed his life to the law in a Pharisaic interpretation, he was zealous for that to the point where he fought against and actually slaughtered those who were in his own mind a threat to Judaism.
We find this demonstrated in the seventh chapter of the book of Acts. And you remember there the record of the stoning of Stephen and it says that Stephen was being stoned. Of course the Jews were angry at the message that he had preached and they were gnashing on him with their teeth and they began to stone him. And in the process, verse 58, they cast him out of the city, stoned him and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet whose name was Saul. Now this is Saul's, really his introduction into the picture. He is there at the stoning of Stephen. So zealous is he for the elimination of Christianity which he sees as a threat to existing Pharisaic Judaism and it indeed was that he is there as a part of those who stone Stephen. Chapter 8 of Acts, verse 1, goes on, Saul was consenting unto his death. He was not an innocent bystander, he was a part of it. And also at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria except the Apostle— the Apostles. Then in verse 3 it says, "Saul made havoc of the church, entering into every house and haling men and women, committing them to prison." And that's what scattered them abroad.
So, here was a Jew of the Jews, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, a man committed to a Pharisaic interpretation of the law, a man so zealous of his Judaism that he was slaughtering people who were not following properly in the path that he thought was the path of righteousness. He was breathing out threatenings and slaughters against the church, the Scripture says, and making havoc. This man, as we find later on in the book of Acts in chapter 9, was on the way to Damascus to carry out further persecution when he was stopped in his tracks, blinded by Christ Himself, saved, called to the ministry and baptized. He was then sent out to Nabatea in Arabia where for several years he wandered in the wilderness receiving from the Lord preparation for ministry. He came back, the church was afraid of him because they remembered his reputation. He was introduced to the church by Barnabas and he was accepted and then became a pastor of a church in Antioch along with other men listed in chapter 13 of Acts verse 1. He was one of those pastors in Antioch. As you read further into the chapter, he along with Barnabas, another of those five pastors in Antioch, was separated for mission work. And in Acts 13 he then is sent to reach the world, the Gentile world with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
A remarkable man who in Galatians chapter 1 affirms that he did not receive his revelations, he did not receive his gospel, he did not receive his teaching from men. Nobody taught it to him, not even the Apostles, but it was given him directly by Jesus Christ. Christ saved him. Christ called him into the ministry. And Christ gave him his revelation. It is this man who is writing the letter. This man with a strong Jewish heritage, a strong Pharisaic background, a zealot for the law, who is now an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the commandment of God our Savior in Christ Jesus our hope. He is the one who writes.
Need we say anything about the word "apostle"? It means one who is sent, one who is sent. In fact, Kenneth Weist(?) says the verb apostello from which this noun comes means to send off one on a commission, to do something as one's personal representative with credentials furnished. The simplest way to translate it would be envoy or ambassador, someone who goes on a mission bearing the credentials of the one who sent him. In its widest sense, an apostle could be anybody sent, anybody. It could be even a person sent as an ambassador or an envoy in a secular environment, in a political environment. In the widest sense it's just a general word, meaning someone sent under commission with a mission to carry out.
In the New Testament sense it is used of one who was an ambassador for Christ carrying the gospel. And there were many apostles in that sense. Barnabas is called an apostle in Acts 14:14. And there are others in 1 Corinthians 15:7, it is not just restricted to Paul or even to the Twelve. There are apostles in the New Testament beyond the Twelve who were sent with the message of the gospel. In 2 Corinthians 8:23 they are called apostles of the churches, a very important term. In Philippians 2:25 Epaphroditus is called an apostle of the Philippians. So there are apostles in the very general sense of preachers who are articulate the gospel.
In Romans 16:7, "Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles." Andronicus and Junia then are called messengers, or ambassadors or envoys. In Galatians, I believe, there's another reference in chapter 1 verse 19, it says other of the apostles saw I none except James, the Lord's brother. Well James the Lord's brother wasn't one of the original Twelve so he wasn't an apostle in that sense, but he is called there an apostle in the broader sense of one who is an ambassador with the gospel of Christ. They then would be apostles of the churches.
But there were twelve, with the addition of Matthias when Judas was disqualified and then there was one other named Paul who are not apostles of the churches, but they are Apostles of Christ Jesus. And that is a unique designation which sets apart the Twelve plus Paul as unique Apostles. We might say with a capital A. These men were different than the apostles of the churches, that is they were not sent by the churches, they were sent by Christ Himself. They were taught by Christ Himself, as Paul says of himself in Galatians 1:12. And that's why here he says I am an Apostle of Christ Jesus. These men were called and chosen and sent personally by Jesus Christ. You'll remember that the Twelve were chosen by Christ, that Paul was chosen by Christ, a chosen vessel, the Lord said to him, to bring light to the Gentiles. They not only were chosen and sent by Christ, but these Apostles were witnesses of Christ personally, witnesses of His words and His deeds and His resurrection. You could not be an Apostle with a capital A unless you had seen the risen Christ. You say, "Did Paul see the risen Christ?" Yes, he saw Him in glory on the Damascus Road and he saw him two other times in exalted visions that God gave him. They were eye witnesses of the risen Christ.
Thirdly, these Apostles with a capital A were gifted uniquely by the Holy Spirit to impart divine truth. It was to them that Jesus said, "When the Spirit comes He will lead you into all truth and bring all things to your remembrance, whatever I have said unto you," John 14:26 and John 15:26. So they were Apostles who called, commissioned and sent by Christ, Apostles who saw Christ, heard His words and saw Him after His resurrection, Apostles uniquely gifted by Christ for the proclamation of divine truth through direct revelation.
And then finally, they were Apostles who had the ability to cast out demons and heal the sick. They had the ability to do signs and wonders and mighty deeds which are called in 2 Corinthians 12 "the marks of an Apostle." And in Hebrews 2:3 and 4 they were able to do signs and wonders and manifest gifts of the Spirit as confirmation of the message they preached. In Ephesians 2:20 it calls them foundation. The church is built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets.
So, Paul then in simply giving this title, an Apostle, would not tell us as much as we need to know, and so he adds an apostle not of the church but of Christ Jesus. And may I suggest an interesting note? The words Christ Jesus are usually in the reverse order. Only in the ministry and teaching and writing of Paul do we find them in this order, Christ Jesus, usually it's the other way around. And there, I believe, is a reason for that. May I suggest to you that whenever you read James or Peter or John, it is always Jesus Christ. And it may well reflect the fact that for them their first acquaintance with Jesus was indeed as Jesus the man. It wasn't until later that it became apparent to them that He was also the living incarnate Son of God. And the word Jesus is His earthly name. From the Old Testament Joshua or Jehoshua which means Jehovah saves. But still it was His human name. Then came Christ which is the name that is His name of Messiahship, it's the word anointed, it speaks of Him as sovereign, as King, as Lord. It was not until later that the disciples who first knew Him as Jesus came to understand that He was Christ. But for Paul, the first time Paul ever met Him he met Him in His glorified state in a post-resurrection vision of glory and so for Paul it is Christ and then it is to understand that that Christ whom he met was none other than the human Jesus. I don't want to read too much into it but it's a nice demonstration of Paul's perspective and we find it only characteristic of Paul to reverse those.
Now why does Paul...why does Paul take such pains to establish his Apostleship like this to Timothy? We could understand if he was writing to the church at Ephesus where Timothy is now busy, or other churches in Asia-Minor to which Timothy no doubt also was ministering. We could understand if he was trying to lay some kind of weight on his authority with a church but why does he make this statement with Timothy? Does Timothy need to be convinced? Obviously he did not. Timothy knew of Paul's authority but it is because Timothy is going to need to enforce these things in the church that Paul has the weight placed upon his own Apostleship. Timothy is an ambassador. Timothy, in a sense, is a representative of Paul. And in order for Timothy to have all the leverage that he needs to get his message across, it is important for Paul to lay down some heavy reminders about his own authority. The letter comes to strengthen Timothy's hand in what is a difficult situation.
You say, "Was it a difficult situation in which Timothy ministered?" Extremely difficult, extremely difficult. Originally when Paul and Timothy went to Ephesus, the first thing Paul had to do is in chapter 1 verse 20, he had to take Hymenaeus and Alexander and deliver them to Satan that they might learn not to blaspheme. He had to remove two very key leaders in the church. For all we know they may have been pastor/teachers in that church, they may have been overseers in that church. But they were teaching heresy and they had made shipwreck, verse 19 says, of the faith. And when Paul went in there what he did was eliminate those two guys and then he set Timothy in the leadership and left. And now he's writing back to Timothy because he knows there be great difficulty in setting in order what's going on in that church because of the influence of false teachers, false doctrine. And so to strengthen Timothy's hand he affirms that this comes authoritatively from one who was commissioned not by a church but by Christ Jesus Himself...Christ Jesus Himself.
Now he's not through with this affirmation. "Paul an Apostle of Christ Jesus," now he gives us another strong statement about why he's writing, "by the commandment of God our Savior and Christ Jesus our hope unto Timothy." Now he is not only an Apostle by the commandment of God our Savior and Christ our hope, but he is writing by the commandment of God our Savior and Christ our hope. What he is really saying here is not only is my commission based upon God's purpose, but my letter is also, so you better listen to what it said. It's a strong word, a strong word. It's as if he said I have a direct command from God and Christ to write this letter, Timothy. Now carry this out. It puts a great burden on Timothy, it puts a great burden on the church who no doubt would have heard that letter writt...read to them.
Now just a couple of notes. The word "commandment" here is epitage and it refers to a royal commandment. It refers to the commandment from a monarch or a king which is not negotiable. It's not an object for discussion. He is under orders from the sovereign of the universe. And now Timothy is under orders from the sovereign of the universe and so is the congregation to which Timothy carries out the ministry. Usually, and I think for many people who have studied 1 Timothy, this somehow gets overlooked. But usually Paul would refer to himself as Paul an Apostle by the will of God, doesn't that sound familiar? By the will of God. And that's true, such as in 2 Timothy where that's exactly what he says, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God according to the promise of life, and so forth. But here he doesn't talk about the will of God and the promise of God, he talks about the commandment of God because there are some things that are in great disarray in this church. This church has been around long enough to have problems, false teaching, sin. And so he comes on very strong, speaking from commandments. And his orders come from to beautiful phrases, "God our Savior and Christ Jesus our hope." God our Savior and Christ Jesus our hope. Marvelous, marvelous phrases.
You know, someone once said, and I think it's really a great thing to remember, that Christianity is a religion of personal pronouns. I like that. We read it in the Psalm that I read to you this morning. My own God, God our Savior, Christ our hope. Ours is not a belief in some distant deity to be appeased, someone we fear to touch or draw nigh unto, ours is a...is a faith that involves intimacy, possession.
Notice that Paul says "God our Savior and Christ our hope" and therefore links God and Christ. This is an allusion to deity on the part of Christ. He links together as co-equal as the source of his divine commission God and Christ. Now this is most important. Starting in the gospel account moving all the way through the New Testament you will find that Jesus repeatedly links Himself up with God. Of the over 70 times that He refers to God in terms of His communion with God and talking to God, only one time does He call Him anything other than...what?...Father. And He does that in order to emphasize that they are of the same essence, like begets like. In fact when He said in John 5 that I work and My Father works and linked Himself with God in common essence and common privilege, the Jews became infuriated and said He's making Himself equal with God. God is always designated as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, God and Christ are inseparably linked.
And so, what Paul is doing here by saying God our Savior and Christ our hope is linking Christ and God to the same essence therefore articulating the deity of Jesus Christ. And I think that was very important at the outset because apparently it was under question among some of the people to whom Timothy ministered. Chapter 3 verse 16 he says, "And without controversy," somehow in Ephesus there was some controversy about this, there was some discussion about this, but there shouldn't be for great is the mystery of godliness that God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the nations, believed on the world and received up into glory. That's a creedal description of the work of Christ. Apparently there were some who were even attacking the deity of Christ and there is a necessary reminder that there's no controversy on that issue, God was manifest in the flesh. And so, God our Savior and Christ our hope linked together the Father and the Son in common life and that's as it ought to be. As I've said, that is a ringing theme throughout the gospel record, those two are one.
In Matthew 11:27, "All things are delivered unto Me by My Father, no man knows the Son but the Father, neither knows any man the Father except the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him." That's a common kind of statement Jesus makes to link Himself inseparably with God. And you can always find in false religions systems the denial of the deity of Jesus Christ. There must have been an aberrant Christology, there must have been an attack on the character of Christ.
And then he also says "God our Savior," I suppose there are some people who believe that...and we know about them, liberal theologians have many of them acquiesce to this view, that the God of the Old Testament is an angry, mad, vengeful, furious, wrathful God who wants to destroy everybody but Jesus Christ came along and appeased Him. The idea that God is a God of anger and judgment and fury and Christ is the loving gentle Savior who comes and appeases this angry God. Nothing could be further from the truth. God is our Savior and salvation began not with Christ but with...whom?...with God. It was God who master planned salvation from the very beginning, God our Savior.
That, by the way, is a very interesting phrase that appears only in the pastoral epistles. It is a unique phrase to the pastoral epistles. But is derived from the Old Testament. Throughout the Old Testament the designations are very clear that God is a Savior. And I don't want to belabor the point but just to mention that repeatedly in the Old Testament the text of Scripture speaks about God saving, God reaching out in salvation. For example, were you to look at the Psalms, see if I can mention a couple that come to mind, Psalm 25:5, "Lead me in Thy truth and teach me for Thou art the God of my salvation." This is not foreign to God, this is God's desire. "The Lord," verse 1 of 27 says in the Psalms, "The Lord is my light and my...what?...salvation." Verse 9 it says, "Thou hast been my help, leave me not neither forsake me, O God of my salvation." And Psalm 42, is it, verse 5, "Why art thou cast down, O my soul, why art thou disquieted in me, hope thou in God for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance." In other words, God is a God of salvation. God is a God of grace. God is a God of deliverance that the Old Testament makes abundantly clear. In Habakkuk 3:18, "I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation." So, we want to keep in mind that God is not an angry God being appeased by a loving Christ, but God is a Savior.
In Luke 1, do you remember this? "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior." That was the expression of one who wanted to offer worship to God. God the Savior. In Jude 25, "To the only God our Savior."
So, this phrase basically comes from an Old Testament perspective. God is the source of salvation. And we must never think of God wanting to damn men and Christ wanting to save them from God's damning designs. God is our Savior. Now there may have been some reason among the Ephesians for Paul to say this. There may have been some who were teaching that God was not interested in salvation. That also kind of makes sense because of chapter 2 verse 3, it says there in 1 Timothy, "This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who will have all men to be...what?...saved." So there may also have been, it's very difficult and I might as well say this at the beginning, it's very difficult to reconstruct the error in the Ephesian church to which Paul writes. We really can't...we can't get a handle on it. It's very elusive. It has Jewish elements and it also has Helenistic or Greek elements. Some kind of false religion was moving through that congregation and threatening the church. And of course, Ephesus was a flag-ship church, sort of leading all the other churches of Asia Minor and it was important to keep it corrected. But it must have been that somewhere along the line there was some questioning about whether God was really Savior because it's repeated by Paul the only place he ever uses it, as I said, is in the pastoral epistles. It must have been of some issue. So God is our Savior.
By the way, chapter 1 verse 11 emphasizes it in other terminology, "According to the glorious good news from the blessed God." Again emphasizing that God has given us the good news.
So, beloved, what we want you to understand is Paul is simply saying that salvation began with God and was brought to us through Christ. God our Savior, that's past tense, that's the source. Christ our hope, that's the future promise. God designed the plan and Christ brought it to pass and He is our hope. The reason we can hope in the future is because of what Christ has done, right? Our future hope is tied to Jesus Christ. The salvation that God planned and God designed is realized in Christ Jesus through His death and resurrection. He has become our hope for future glory. In Philippians chapter 3 verse 20, "Our citizenship is in heaven from which also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ." We're looking for Him to come and change our vile bodies and make it like His glorious body. He's our hope. He's our hope. Colossians 1:27 says, "Christ in you the hope of glory." First John 3:2, "When we see Him we'll be like Him. And whoever has this hope purifies himself."
So apparently there were some errorists, some false teachers, some heretics in this church that Timothy was laboring with and they were wanting to rob the church of salvation. They were defining a God who was not a Savior. Maybe it was an incipient Gnosticism where God was a distant being who started everything and was far off and didn't care and there were a series of emanating sub-gods off of Him through which we would try to go and get some appeasement and Jesus was one who would go to this angry indifferent God and sort of appease Him and make things better for us. Whatever it was we really can't label it, there must have been some who were attacking the very...the very essence of God's redeeming love and some who also were attacking the character and deity and work of Jesus Christ. And so even in the introduction there are allusions to this. He says in verse 15, "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief." He emphasizes the work of Christ, the gospel saving work of Christ. And again as I mentioned in chapter 3 verse 16, again he mentions the work of Christ. In chapter 4 verse 10, again another allusion to this. "We labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is...what?...the Savior of all men." There must have been some denial of this...especially of those that believe. Chapter 6 verse 14, "Keep this commandment without spot unrebukable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ which in His times He shall show who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords." And again there's another allusion to the deity of Christ, the Saviorhood of Christ and so forth, in talking about the fact that He's going to come in glory at His great appearing and so forth and so on. So there must have been some argument about the Saviorhood of God and the coming of Christ and the hope of the future and so forth.
So the letter then has great import because there are some very basic things that issue here like the fact that God is a loving God who wants to save and like Christ is the Son of God, God in human flesh who has died for us and so forth. I mean, the very issues of salvation are at stake in this letter. So the letter comes then with a heavy emphasis on authority because there has to be an understanding among those people that this letter is coming from one who was commissioned by God and Christ and one who is writing by the direct will of God and Christ to speak to issues which are at stake in that church.
And isn't it sad to think about the fact that here we are about the middle of the sixties, about 64 A.D. we're about 30 years away from the death of Jesus Christ and already inside the church there are those who would deny the loving, redeeming, saving plan of God and the deity of Jesus Christ? This is 30 years after His death and already that's not outside the church, that's in the church. And who do you think brought it in? Take a wild guess. That's the work of the adversary. And so we learn what Paul learned very early and especially working with the Ephesian church which he had warned already earlier before this was ever written that when I leave you're going to have problems. Remember that in Acts 20? Perverse men are going to rise from within you. Wolves are going to come in and try to mess you up. I know it will happen as soon as I leave, he said. And I commend you to the Word of His grace which is able to build you up. I know what will happen. And sure enough, he left and it happened. And it happened so extensively that by the nineties when John wrote the Revelation, the letter to Ephesus was that you for all intents and purposes have left your first...what?...love. The Ephesian church became the victim of error initially and then apparently it got its act together under Timothy, corrected the error and then became a victim of apathy and indifference. And it's an old story, beloved, the enemy will work on the church in whatever way the church will allow it. If the enemy cannot corrupt the theology, the enemy will bring apathy. And here we have a chronolog of this Ephesian church, first this a glowing and exciting and thrilling church in its beginnings. It becomes THE church to which Paul gives three years of his life to lay the foundations. The church to which he gives Timothy for oversight and leadership among its already established leaders at this particular time. But in the process of moving from the ministry of Paul till the time that Timothy has come there, in those very few years, maybe ten or twelve years at the most, the church has already reached a place where heresy is filling the place. Timothy apparently was able to set that right. And in a few years after that, the church has become totally apathetic and lost its first love.
It's a frightening thing to think about. But the reason the New Testament gives us these letters is so that we can continually be correcting the same things that will always exist in the life of the church. Well, it's from Paul an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the commandment of God our Savior and Christ our hope. And then verse 2 says, "Unto Timothy." The name is made up of two Greek words. One means to honor and the other is the word for God. Timothy means one who honors God. It's a beautiful name...one who honors God, or he who honors God. No doubt it was given to him by his mother and grandmother who must have been devout Jews because according to 2 Timothy they taught him the Scriptures from a child. I believe that it's most likely his father who was a pagan, who was a Greek, not a Jew, was not a Christian, not a believer and may well have been dead at this particular time. But it's certainly not a factor in Timothy's spiritual progress, the factors were his mother and grandmother and perhaps they had named him "he who honors God" wishing with all their hearts that he would indeed live up to his name which in fact he did. His grandmother's name was Lois, according to 2 Timothy 1:5 and his mother's name was Eunice and they had carefully and faithfully taught him the Word of God. In fact in 2 Timothy 3:15, "From a child you have known the holy Scripture."
So they gave him a name of great great significance. Timothy, this young man, was a beloved and trusted companion of the Apostle Paul. In fact, probably more than any other was the protege the number one product of Paul's ministry, his disciple, his replacement. The reason I say that is 1 Corinthians chapter 4 in verse 16 as he writes to the Corinthians, he says, "I beseech you, be ye followers of me." Pattern your life after me. "And because I want this...this is marvelous...because I want you to be just like me I sent you Timothy." Isn't that great? I want you to be like me so I sent you Timothy. You say, "Well why does he do that?" "Who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord who will bring you into remembrance of my ways." In other words, I want you to be like me so I'm sending you Timothy who is exactly like me. He'll bring you in to remembrance of my ways. He does things the way I do. He is my child in the faith.
This marvelous man, Timothy, who was with Paul for up to 20 years from the time of his conversion as a man in his late teens to the time of about 35 years of age when he's receiving this letter, all of that time he's been with Paul in some kind of ministry with the exception of the time that he sort of seems to disappear during Paul's imprisonment. He was left behind at Berea with Silas when Paul escaped to Athens and later joined Paul there. In due time he came to Athens, in Acts 18 he was sent as Paul's emissary to Macedonia in Acts 19, he was there when the collection from the churches was being taken to Jerusalem with Paul in Acts 20. He was with Paul in Corinth when he wrote his letter to Rome. He was Paul's emissary to Corinth when there was trouble in the church, as I read you in the fourth chapter of 1 Corinthians. He was with Paul when he wrote 2 Corinthians. It was Timothy who went to see how things were going in Thessalonica and he was with Paul when he wrote the letter to that Thessalonian church. He was with Paul in prison when he wrote the letter to the Philippians. He was with Paul when he wrote the Colossians. He was with Paul when he wrote Philemon. He was constantly with him...a beloved disciple. The son of a Jewish mother, a son of a Greek father, he was a perfect companion. He had the Jewish heritage to have access into the synagogue where Paul always began his ministry. He had the Gentile background to understand the culture and be accepted by the Gentiles as well. He was a unique and marvelous tool of God.
But the most important thing that Paul can say about him, and this is what I want to focus on this morning just to introduce it and then next week we'll develop it, he calls him "true child, or genuine child in the faith." That is a marvelous marvelous and rich statement. This opens up tremendous insight into the character of Timothy. Now next Sunday I'm going to give you the five characteristics of this true child in the faith which are the five goals and objectives for every discipler, the things that you would want to see produced in anyone that would be your child in the faith. I think it will be one of the most significant, one of the most basic, one of the most transferable sermons that I have ever preached on what it means to raise up a true child in the faith. The word "child", just to look at this phrase for a moment, is teknon, comes from tikto which means to beget. It's not talking about a mature son, it's talking about a begotten or born son. In other words, the emphasis is not on the fact that Timothy is his child, but on the emphasis...the emphasis is on the fact that Paul gave birth to Timothy. It is a birth word. You are my product. You are a genuine child in the sense of the parent/child relationship. You owe me your spiritual life. You are my offspring in the faith.
And, you are a genuine offspring. I love that word, gnesios, it is the opposite to nothos, Nothos means bastard, or illegitimate. Gnesios means legitimate. This is a legitimate child. This is a true child. This is a genuine child. This is, may I make a comparison, no Demas. Second Timothy 4:10, Paul had another follower by the name of Demas but it says, "Demas hath...what?...forsaken me, having loved this present world." Demas was a nothos, he was a bastard child, an illegitimate child. This is a genuine child. Not in the physical sense but in the spiritual sense, and that's what the phrase "in faith or in the faith" means. It doesn't have an article, it's what we call anarthorus(?), that is without the article, it's literally in faith but it can still be translated in the faith. If it's in faith it is subjective. In other words, he became my child in the sphere of faith. He lives with me in the sphere of faith where those dwell who have faith in God. Or he could be saying in the faith in an objective sense, that is in the content of the revealed faith. He is my child in faith, that's true because he put his faith in Christ, I put my faith in Christ and so we are together in the sphere of faith subjectively. It well could be too in THE faith and I prefer that as do most scholars. He is my child in the faith, that is he's my child not in the human realm but in the realm of the faith. That is in terms of Christianity and in the sphere of the faith. But his spiritual birth was real. His spiritual birth was genuine. He is really my child.
What a joy! I mean, what a thrill for someone to have someone like that. To be able to say to the Corinthians...I want you to be like me so I'm sending him because he's exactly like me. O, bless God, what a joy that would be...to have that kind of reproduction.
What Paul is saying is this, beautiful beautiful way of expressing this, that Timothy...Timothy is running true to form. Timothy is true to his spiritual parentage. He is showing marked resemblance to me. In other words, look, people, he represents me there among you. He reflects my will, my desire, my patterns of spiritual life. He is born of God and he is my protege, my child, genuine, the product of my discipling.
And so this is all very important because the Ephesians are going to resist the efforts that are made here. Not the ones that were good and solid and true to the faith but the rest. And they needed to come alongside Timothy against the error and the heresy and the false leadership. And all of this authority is very very important. I'm commending Timothy to this church as my own genuine child. And that's in the heart of Paul in Philippians. He says a wonderful thing. He has such a great affection and love for Timothy. He says in verse 16 of Philippians 2, "I trust in the Lord Jesus to the Philippians to send Timothy." I want to send Timothy. Why? "I have no man like-minded." I don't have anybody like him. Everybody else seeks their own things, not the things which are Jesus Christ's but you know the proof of him that as a son with a father he has served me in the gospel. Isn't that marvelous? I don't have anybody like him. Everybody else is serving their own desires. You know, I'll tell you something, folks, that's comforting to me. That's very comforting because no matter how hard you try sometimes to produce disciples, you look long and hard and there are far and few between who really are like-minded with you who really could be sent as your ambassador, as your emissary, as your replica into a very difficult situation. And for Paul to have such a Timothy is to have a cherished treasure beyond description. And is it any wonder that he wrote 2 Timothy to him when he saw him begin to kind of fall in to a weak pattern in his life and try to strengthen him because he was so critical to him? That's not written to him in some kind of ministerial professional tone, that's written as the cry of the heart of a spiritual father and discipler who is saying please don't abandon what I know you to be, don't become something less than I've seen you to be. I don't think my heart could stand it, nor could the work of Christ.
So, he has a genuine son in the right place. And then to strengthen again this issue he has a greeting, "Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord." That beautiful phrase usually is just grace and peace, he throws mercy in there because Timothy is going to need all of them in dealing with his problems and his situation. Grace refers to God's undeserved favor, love and forgiveness given to sinners to free them from the consequence of sin. Mercy doesn't free us from the consequence of sin, it frees us from the misery that comes along with sin. Grace wipes out the sin, mercy wipes out the misery. And then there's the word peace and peace is the result of grace and mercy. It means not only harmony with God but tranquility of the soul. And so he says, Timothy, this is my wish for you, grace because grace is not just needed at salvation, is it, don't we need grace after salvation to keep on cleansing us? And mercy is not just needed at salvation, don't we need mercy to keep on delivering us from the misery of sin? And don't we always need peace? And again he emphasizes it's from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord, linking Christ to God again and emphasizing they belong to us in a personal way. And I might say here it seems also that part of this heresy was to depersonalize God and depersonalize Christ. And so he throws four uses of the word "our" in those first two verses...equal deity, personal possession.
So the whole thing is really introduced to us in those two verses from Paul who has tremendous passion for this Ephesian congregation because of his own three years invested there. He wants them to listen so he lays down his credentials as strongly as he can and makes allusion to their heresies regarding Christ and God and the Saviorhood of God and the hope of Christ. He gives Timothy all the weight he can by saying he's a true reproduction of me and then asks God to pour out on Timothy continuing grace, continuing mercy and continuing peace that he may carry out the work that he is commissioned to do.
Now with that as a background, next week I want to develop the whole idea of what Timothy is as a true child and developing that you will see an overview of the entire epistle. Let's bow together in prayer.
Thank You, Father, for the opportunity to begin a new and a fresh and a wonderful book for the adventure that awaits us, we bless Your name. O Father, I pray too for those who might be in our midst this day who do not know God our Savior and Christ our hope. May this be the day of the awakening of salvation in their lives. Bless, Lord, every life, every heart, every soul. For those who know You, may we be true children in the faith and may we seek to raise up true children in the faith who can represent us in the ongoing work of Your glorious Kingdom. Prepare our hearts, Lord, for what is ahead and work in our hearts even this day for Christ's sake. Amen.
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"Tribute to Notting Hill race hate victim"
posted by: Tippa Naphtali
published: 9th April 2006
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Stanley Cochrane is 75 years old. He came to Britain for the first time last year, not as a tourist, but to discover who murdered his brother almost 50 years ago. On 17th May 1959, Kelso Cochrane, a 32-year-old carpenter from Antigua, was killed by a group of white youths in Notting Hill Gate. No one was ever convicted.
"In March 2003 I awoke from a disturbing dream about my brother," says Stanley. "From that moment I couldn't shake his face from my mind. "He kept coming back in my dreams. I decided I had to do something."
Stanley wrote to the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir John Stevens, asking for his brother's murder to be re-investigated. They replied there was no new forensic evidence to re-open the case.
Three years on, and not satisfied with the police response, he decided to see what he could find out for himself.
Above all, he wanted to know why his brother Kelso was killed. Was it robbery or racially motivated? Was it both?
In 2011 a new book by BBC documentary maker, Mark Olden,claimed the identity of the killer had been an 'open secret' since Kelso Cochrane's death. The unsolved murder of Kelso Cochrane has finally been laid to rest after 50 years after the man accused of killing him was named as Patrick Digby.
Digby was arrested along with another men after police focused their inquiries on a group of white men at a house party in the street where the murder took place.
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Man who stabbed Antiguan carpenter through the heart in Notting Hill 'race killing' finally named after 50 years
(Mail Online – 8 September 2011)
The unsolved murder of Kelso Cochrane has finally been laid to rest after 50 years after the man accused of killing him was named as Patrick Digby. Mr Cochrane, a black immigrant from Antigua, was stabbed to death by a white youth in Notting Hill, west London in 1959. Digby was arrested along with another men after police focused their inquiries on a group of white men at a house party in the street where the murder took place.
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Kelso Cochrane, an immigrant from Antigua, was murdered in Notting Hill by a gang of White men as he walked home from a local hospital after receiving treatment for an injury he had sustained in his work as a carpenter. Kelso was stabbed and later died in hospital.
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Casper Firefighters Rescue Adults, Children and Pet from Burning Home
Authorities say four people were rescued from a house fire that destroyed a west Casper home and caused minor damage to nearby residences early Wednesday morning.
Firefighters were called to the blaze in the 2900 block of Ridgecrest Drive at around 2:30 a.m. Casper Fire-EMS captain Patrick McJunkin said emergency crews found the home enveloped in flames upon arrival.
"It appears right now that the fire started in the garage area and extended outside to the vehicles parked in the driveway," McJunkin said. "It then tried to extend into the living areas of the house."
Crews sprayed nearby structures with water for protection. Ambient heat caused a window from a neighboring house to break.
McJunkin said the four people who escaped the blaze left uninjured. A family pet was also successfully rescued.
"We got indications from dispatch that the occupants of the house had not evacuated prior to our arrival," McJunkin said. "They did locate two adults and two children inside the house initially, and they assisted them outside of the house."
McJunkin said the blaze was put out roughly 10 minutes after the home was evacuated. He said the garage was declared a total loss, while the interior of the house suffered severe smoke and heat damage.
McJunkin said a car in the garage was destroyed. A pickup outside of the garage suffered severe damage to its front end.
Fire officials also say a camper on the property was damaged.
Authorities say the incident remains under investigation. Casper Fire-EMS has not yet determined an exact cause of the blaze.
Rich Denison and Anthony Pollreisz contributed to this story.


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The ad industry has been screwing their clients ever since the first online ad was served in 1995. The ad industry prostituted itself so badly they got the cost of ads to almost nothing or free. So to back peddal, they've had to devise all kinds of contorted ripps to make money while still sticking it to the publishers. All that is about to get worse as they bring in attention advertising.
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Hi All,
I spent part of the day in my woods and ended up gathering quite a few hickory nuts. I found some were fairly large--almost an inch wide after taking them out of the outer shell. So I have a few questions: Do deer eat hickory nuts? My guess is they are too hard for them to chew on.
some of the nuts feel too "fresh" or "green." Do I need to let them "cure" a bit before taking them out of the shell? i have them in a basket by the heat register in my house. I did crack one open and tasted it(yum!) but it seemed to need more drying time.
I plan on making a hickory nut pie for Thanksgiving. It will take me that long to get the meat out of the nuts!
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Women's Wear Daily is reporting that Shu Uemura parent company L'Oreal is pulling it's Shu Uemura displays and counters from US stores. If you are like me and like to make your Shu purchases in person, I'm afraid you only have a little while longer to do that because soon your only option will be purchasing from the brand's website.
So why is L'Oreal shifting gears with Shu Uemura? Carol Hamilton, president of L'Oréal USA's Luxury Division explained:
"We love the brand, but it is a very small part of our portfolio. It's a simple decision after a very complex analysis: we have a very large portfolio, and we want to focus on growing the brands which have a larger presence in the U.S. market."
Some of the larger brands referred to above are Lancome, Giorgio Armani and Yves Saint Laurent. Did you know that the brand does 80% of its business in Asia? With a stat like that, the move starts to make more sense but definitely saddens me. I think a trip to my local Shu counter is in order to starting building a wishlist. How about you?


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Dr. Amanda Bridges, professor in the Department of Communication and New Media, opened up the Lambda Pi Eta Induction Ceremony.
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Elizabeth Banfield, Lambda Pi Eta Treasurer and Publicist.
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Dooney Tickner has spent his life around books. He was a member of a book of the month club before he was a teenager. When he went to college, he majored in history and literature. For 12 years, he was director of the Destin Library.
CINCO BAYOU � Dooney Tickner has spent his life around books.
He was a member of a book of the month club before he was a teenager. When he went to college, he majored in history and literature. For 12 years, he was director of the Destin Library.
He has taken his love of the written word and his collection of tens of thousands of books to open Dooney�s Book Company, a used bookstore in Cinco Bayou that specializes in hard- and soft-back books from nearly every genre.
�There are probably a little over 50,000 (books) here right now, and I have access to a whole lot more,� Tickner said. �I have books stored off-site, also.
�Basically, I deal in everything from juvenile books to nonfiction to fiction,� he added. �I have classics to current literature. The only thing I really don�t deal in are things like Harlequin romances, mainly because of space limitations.�
Tickner started the business with books from his collection, but now gets titles from estate sales, some yard sales, library sales and church sales. He also buys some books from customers, but only on a limited basis.
�I never rule it out, but I always reserve the right to look at it first before I buy it,� Tickner said. �In a business like this, you can get bottom up very quickly, especially if you buy too much and you give people more money because you feel like they need the money.�
Tickner, who was the director of the Destin Library from 1987 to 1999, opened Dooney�s Book Company in September 2009 in an old yellow house at 228 Troy St. N.E.
The prices range from 50 cents to $50, although the number of books priced in the $40 to $50 range is very limited, he said. Average prices for a book are $3 for one in fair condition up to $6 for one in great condition.
Tickner usually even has a selection of books that he gives away; ones that are damaged and he doesn�t feel comfortable selling, but are still readable.
�People particularly cling to books they read while they were children or the classics they want to give their children or their grandchildren,� he said.
He believes good customer service is one reason he has so much repeat business.
�I believe in personal service. I call people when something they like comes in. I have regular customers who bring me books. I know the specific authors they like,� Tickner said.
Although e-readers are becoming more and more popular, Tickner said he doesn�t believe they will ever completely replace printed books. He said e-readers are convenient for people who travel or live in a small space, but most people still like a real book at the beach or while taking a bath.
�Very quickly it�s emerged that the price of used books or books acquired at yard sales or thrift shops is certainly competitive with and usually less than the downloads of the new stuff on the e-reader,� he said.
Tickner has done some online selling through Amazon.com in the past, but on a very limited basis. His goal going forward is to improve the store�s presence online.
In the next two to three months, he hopes to have a Facebook page for his store that will offer discounts or special deals for people who �Like� his page online. He also wants to develop a dedicated website and eventually have an online store for his business.
Contact Daily News Business Editor Dusty Ricketts at 850-315-4448 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @DustyRnwfdn.


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Rauch on the River...neked perverts are cavorting along the Raccoon River...again...annoying family canoeing expeditions and puzzling the taxpayers....again. Then, Cheryle Hart says your diet may be making you crazy. "The Feed Good Diet".. Iowa is making world news for our prison population diversity rates. Tommy Thompson talks about practical solutions for stuff.
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