“Do your best to come to me soon. For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry. Tychicus I have … Continue reading Opposed, Deserted, and Rescued
Year: 2024
Have You Kept the Faith?
“For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to … Continue reading Have You Kept the Faith?
Traffic Jam
Stopped up traffic, where to go?Where’s the answers? Do you know?Pitter-patter, quick and light,Truth has taken a big flight. Easy road takes you around,Where the truth not to be found.Flitter-flatter, do their tricks,Play their games and pick up sticks. All’s a game, they do the same,Lies they tell are really lame.Make up things, they go … Continue reading Traffic Jam
TikTok Not
“I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people … Continue reading TikTok Not
All Who Desire to Live a Godly Life
“You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life … Continue reading All Who Desire to Live a Godly Life
Times of Difficulty Have Come
“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, … Continue reading Times of Difficulty Have Come
A Vessel for Honorable Use
“Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, … Continue reading A Vessel for Honorable Use
Nonsense, Nonsense
Nonsense, nonsense coming from their mouths,Raise their banners, raise them very loud,Bold in witness, that but not of God,Please the world and draw in their large crowds. “Win the world to us, but not to God,Please the crowds and make sure music’s loud,Tell some jokes, and have a new cartoon,Twist the Scriptures morning, night, and … Continue reading Nonsense, Nonsense
As One Approved by God
“Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble, for … Continue reading As One Approved by God
What if We Deny Him?
“Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in … Continue reading What if We Deny Him?
Run With It 