Welcome to another episode of 30 Minutes in the New Testament.

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all that stuff. Eric, an exciting day. This happened not that long

ago because we were flying through some books because they were short books. But we are starting

a new book today, or, to be more correct, a new letter today. That is correct. Yes, we're starting

the epistle of First Timothy. And for that matter, we're going to be going through all of what are known as the pastoral epistles of the Apostle Paul.

So we'll start off with 1st Timothy, move to 2nd Timothy, and then end with Titus before we move on to some other great and salutary letter or writing in the New Testament.

And this one is chocked full of goodness, man.

Even in this first chapter, as we're going to see,

one of my favorite, absolute favorite verses in all of Scripture is in this first chapter.

Little background, just a tiny bit.

What is this letter?

What are really the pastoral epistles? Well, it's-

who is Timothy? Yeah, who exactly. Well, as you listen to it, you're going to find out,

even in the second verse, that Paul considers Timothy his true child in the faith. Timothy is a young

pastor that Paul has mentored, that Paul has raised up to take over the church in Ephesus after

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