2 Timothy 4:3
This week’s church memory verse is 2 Timothy 4:3 – ‘For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own …
I Will Either Deteriorate or Remain Stable
Do you remember the scientific Law of Entropy? Rather than evolve or improve upwards, things tend to gradually decline into disorder. This verse gives us the Law of Spiritual Entropy. The closer we get to the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, there will be a regression, a gradual worsening of…
What I Learn From Onesiphorus
God has many obscure followers. One day in heaven we will be privileged to meet them. Sure there are the notable ones we discover in our Bibles or in history. But there must be hundreds of thousands that few have heard of. They never built an ark or wrote a book or preached to…
2 Timothy 3:13
This week’s church memory verse is 2 Timothy 3:13 – ‘But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.’
God’s Wish List
Do you have a wish list? Maybe your family is like ours. In the hunt for gift ideas, we love to collect hints that drop throughout the year. You know, Mum finds a new dessert she likes for an occasional splurge, or a sister’s pair of shoes have come to the end of their usefulness. The…
How to Treat Disobedient Christians
Today’s Scripture passage corrects two modern myths. When hearing a warning about professing Christians who are in error, occasionally someone will say, ‘I know they don’t believe or live like you do, but they ARE Christians, so just get along.’ First, it may be that they are fellow-believers. Then again, that…
2 Timothy 2:19
This week’s church memory verse is 2 Timothy 2:19 – ‘Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are …
When I Can’t Understand, I Can Trust
You’ve seen it before. ‘Men. You just can’t figure them out!’ Accompanied with the roll of eyes and a knowing look, two women might express their frustration at not being able to grasp why men do what they do. Or two fellows might say something similar about females. Taxpayers doubt the wisdom of our…
The Goal is to Mature
As Epaphras prayed for his church family, there was one request the Apostle Paul heard him make repeatedly. What was that request? ‘Lord, take away their pains and heal all their ailments’? No, that wasn’t his prayer request. ‘Lord, make them prosperous, happy and…
2 Thessalonians 3:3
This week’s church memory verse is 2 Thessalonians 3:3 – ‘But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.’
Always Rejoice in the Lord
Joy is not the result of good news, a happy mood, feeling great, or being on ‘easy street.’ Joy is found in being rightly related to the Lord. When the kids are sick, the pain is intense, a relationship is shattered, or the…
Timothy’s Example
When Paul desired someone to make a dangerous journey to Philippi, he couldn’t find volunteers who were willing to deny themselves life’s comforts. But there was one man. Timothy was exceptional. While most of us seek our own things, Timothys seek the things of Jesus Christ. It is natural to seek…