August 17 2 Timothy 4:9-22 (ESV) Personal Instructions 9 Do your best to come to me soon. 10 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, [1] Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very [...]
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August 17 2 Timothy 4:9-22
Posted: August 17, 2011 by Pam Larson in 2 Timothy, August Bible Readings, Bible PassagesTags: 2 Timothy, August 17 2 Timothy 4:9-22, August Bible Readings, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Scripture
Keep the Faith!
Posted: August 16, 2011 by Pam Larson in 2 Timothy, August, Devotionals/CommentariesTags: 2 Timothy, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, fight of faith, How sincere is your faith?, Keep the Faith!, Scripture, True faith
John Piper, in a sermon from 2 Timothy 4, “I Have Kept the Faith” The two pictures of a fight and a race illustrate what is involved in keeping the faith. But before we go into what is involved in keeping the faith I better say something brief about the nature of faith itself. The [...]
August 16 2 Timothy 4:1-8
Posted: August 16, 2011 by Pam Larson in 2 Timothy, August Bible Readings, Bible PassagesTags: 2 Timothy, August 16 2 Timothy 4:1-8, August Bible Readings, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Scripture
August 16 2 Timothy 4:1-8 (ESV) Preach the Word 4:1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete [...]
How does the Bible equip us?
Posted: August 15, 2011 by Pam Larson in 2 Timothy, August, Devotionals/CommentariesTags: 2 Timothy, Bible, Bible daily, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, How does the Bible equip us?, Scripture
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. —2 Timothy 3:16 John Piper, in a sermon, “All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God and Profitable” That is a remarkable phrase: [...]
August 15 2 Timothy 3:10-17
Posted: August 15, 2011 by Pam Larson in 2 Timothy, August Bible Readings, Bible PassagesTags: 2 Timothy, August 15 2 Timothy 3:10-17, August Bible Readings, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Scripture
August 15 2 Timothy 3:10-17 (ESV) All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God 10 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them [...]
Struggling skeptic?
Posted: August 14, 2011 by Pam Larson in 2 Timothy, August, Devotionals/CommentariesTags: 2 Timothy, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, Scripture, Struggling skeptic?
John Piper with a warning: Beware of being like the people in 2 Timothy 3:7 who are “always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.” Delight in solutions; don’t forever resist them as though it is noble to ever be the struggling skeptic.
August 14 2 Timothy 3:1-9
Posted: August 14, 2011 by Pam Larson in 2 Timothy, August Bible Readings, Bible PassagesTags: 2 Timothy, August 14 2 Timothy 3:1-9, August Bible Readings, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Scripture
August 14 2 Timothy 3:1-9 (ESV) Godlessness in the Last Days 3:1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, [...]
Think and pray. Pray and think.
Posted: August 13, 2011 by Pam Larson in 2 Timothy, August, Devotionals/CommentariesTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, Scripture, Think and pray. Pray and think.
John Piper, in a sermon, “Wonderful Things From Your Word” Consider 2 Timothy 2:7. The NASB has “Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.” Literally it is, “Think about (noei) what I say.” Does this mean that understanding Paul’s teaching is simply a human, natural enterprise of thinking? No. The [...]
August 13 2 Timothy 2:1-13
Posted: August 13, 2011 by Pam Larson in 2 Timothy, August Bible Readings, Bible PassagesTags: 2 Timothy, August 13 2 Timothy 2:1-13, August Bible Readings, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Scripture
August 13 2 Timothy 2:1-13 (ESV) A Good Soldier of Christ Jesus 2:1 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 3 Share in suffering [...]
Piper: For the sake of the nations
Posted: August 17, 2011 by Pam Larson in 2 Timothy, August, Devotionals/CommentariesTags: 2 Timothy, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, missions, Scripture, world evangelism
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be [...]