Listen. Paul is in prison facing execution. He is at the end of his life, so he writes one last letter to Timothy, a young man that he trained as a follower of Jesus and church leader. He gives some of his final instructions in 2 TImothy 2:1-10.He urges Timothy to entrust the message he …
Family Challenge: Spreading the Good News
Memorize these verses as a family: 2 Timothy 2:8 Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel. 2 Timothy 2:2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men [people] who will also be qualified to teach others. Listen. Gospel …
Sunday, November 24
Psalm: 85 Meditation 1 Peter 3:13-22: This passage opens with a rhetorical question. “Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?” That sounds harmless and unlikely or is it? The days are fast approaching when doing good in this upside-down world may get one arrested and thrown in jail. We …
Saturday, November 23
Psalm: 105 Meditation Luke: I think we all have had moments of self-complacency – smugness, if you will. I suspect that a long as I draw breath, I will be guilty of this, if not aloud, then certainly to myself. Humility is a puzzlement to me. Humility strikes me more as a gift than an …
Friday, November 22
Psalm: 88 Meditation Malachi: Both the nativities of John the Baptist and of Jesus are foretold here. When Jesus returns this prophecy will be fulfilled after the tribulation. We see a split pictured here: there are two comings but Malachi, as with other OT prophets saw both advents as a single event – one of …
Thursday, November 21
Psalm: 78:40-72 Meditation James: A lot of stuff here. What we know we have is today! There is no promise of tomorrow – only God knows that. Carpe diem is usually a bad philosophical approach unless applied to the advancement of the Kingdom. “Make hay while the sun shines as it were. As for wealth, …
Wednesday, November 20
Psalm: 78:1-39 Meditation Luke: Just two days ago we considered the faith/works debate in James 2. Here we see it in action. Those 10 outcasts (lepers) cried out to Jesus for cleansing and all He said to them was to show themselves to the priests (as written in the Leviticus chapter 13). These lepers believed …
