Today’s Word
Called to Deliver
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. 2 Timothy 4:2 Preach – The New Testament gives a clear and concise description of the required actions of a leader of the flock. The list is short, but powerful. It begins with this word, keruzon…
With the End in Mind
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7 Finished – God is not interested in you just crossing the finish line. Do you know that? Do you know that getting to heaven is not the goal, that dying “saved” is not what this race…
Rules of Engagement
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7 Good Fight – Wouldn’t it be nice if we could be as bold as Paul is as he describes his life? Could you say to the world that you have fought the good fight? Do you…
Disciplined Rewarded
All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. Hebrews 12:11 Peaceful Fruit – Is God interested in your happiness? Sometimes it doesn’t seem so, especially when we are in the midst of discipline. Then…
Thrown for a Loop
All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. Hebrews 12:11 Sorrowful – Ever been thrown for a loop? This English idiom describes what it feels like to be battered by experience. It’s not very…
God’s Definition
For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; nor has He hidden His face from Him; but when he cried to Him for help, He heard. Psalm 22:24 Despised – David’s psalm is only one description of the most despised person to ever live. Isaiah completes the picture in chapter 53. …
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