Daily Grace
The Ministry is about People
“Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry” (2 Timothy 4:11). In the course of our Christian lives we meet many different people. The relationships we form shape our lives in significant ways. Paul was writing...
Finishing Strong
“For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:6-7). The goal each of us aspires to is the ability to be able to say this at...
All Scripture Is Inspired
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Our Creator left us an owner’s manual. We aren’t at a loss to...
Form Without Real Change
“Having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people” (2 Timothy 3:5). Paul puts this statement at the end of a list of those whose lives don’t reflect the godliness Jesus brings to our lives. “Lovers of themselves, lovers of money,...
God’s Word Isn’t Chained
“Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel, for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God's word is not chained” (2 Timothy 2:8-9). Paul faced every imaginable obstacle to his ministry....
Grace Makes Us Strong
“You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 2:1). Every Christian agrees that our salvation begins with grace. Paul wrote, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith” (Ephesians 2:8). The truth that has sometimes been...
Grace is a Gift
“He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time” (2 Timothy 1:9). Salvation is so certain that Paul refers to it in the...
God Gives Us What We Need
“For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline” (2 Timothy 1:7). We know that many different people have a variety of different personalities. Everything we know about Timothy indicates that he was timid. We know that...
Don’t Play Favorites
“I charge you, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, to keep these instructions without partiality, and to do nothing out of favoritism” (1 Timothy 5:21). God hates both partiality and favoritism. Another translation of this verse is, “be...