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CHOOSING AND FOLLOWING THE RIGHT PEOPLE

Timothy needed to be cautious when choosing church leaders as we do also whenever that need arises.  Seems like most churches today when looking for a leader or head pastor look for the person who has all the degrees and leadership skills that would make for a good...

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STANDING FIRM

Timothy was feeling the temptation to modify his message and to quit preaching it. So Paul exhorts him to continue in what you have been doing with the trust in God and love for the people which Jesus Christ supplies. God has been faithful to Timothy and he must...

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A SENSE OF AWE

Apparently a storm was approaching as Elihu was speaking to Job. In the East, you can see a storm brewing miles away and watch as it approaches. What was Elihu’s response to the roar of the storm? First the storm reminded him of God’s sovereignty and God’s...

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STUDYING SCRIPTURE IN A RIGHT MANNER

Too many people nowadays are reading into the scriptures, reading them as less than literal, and looking way too far into scriptures to make it say what it doesn’t say. THE KEY IS SHOW YOURSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD. These rules say it all. If you are not reading the...

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THE IMPORTANCE OF ALL SCRIPTURE

Paul is emphasizing how important all Scripture is to Timothy’s ministry and all ministry. There is no part of the Bible that is not needed. If it had been God would not have included it in the finished and complete Bible that is His word to us on how to live. It...

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THE LOVE OF GOD

By the time we get to this verse Job has been through the worst imaginable ordeal anyone could go through. He has lost all he owned, his children, has been living in a horrible time of sickness and has been accused by his friends saying that everything that...

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BELIEVING THE TRUTH AND LIVING IT

Here in Titus 1 verse 15 we see the attitudes of the false teachers, they are totally and completely impure contrasted with the truly saved person’s.  In verse 16 their actions are shown.  This is the hinge verse of the whole book, it shows they are teaching that...

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THE GRACE OF GOD

If you read Titus 2:1-10 you will see the way Christians are supposed to live each and every day. Then in Titus 2:11-14 Paul gives us the reason why we should behave this way. The first reason is we should respond this way in light of God’s gracious gift of...

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FULLY TRUSTING GOD?

Ruth’s statement in Ruth 1:16–17 is one of the most magnificent confessions found anywhere in Scripture. First, she confessed her love for Naomi and her desire to stay with her mother-in-law even unto death. Then she confessed her faith in the true and living God...

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GOD’S FINAL WORD

The writer of Hebrews is presenting God's Son as superior to all other previous methods of revelation. All of it is of God, but all of it is incomplete until Jesus brings it all together when He comes to earth. Jesus Christ is God’s final word to man. Scripture was...

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