“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 complete, equipped for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:16). Most of us already know this scripture and undoubtedly have heard more than one sermon dealing with it over
“3. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, 4. and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5. to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God…” (Eph. 2:19). Most of us have our earthly nuclear family; a father, mother, and maybe a sibling or two. We remain attached to them because of the bloodline, but often we
“…keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. And have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh” (Jude 21-23). In a
“Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. 50. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it” (Eze. 16:49-50). There are millions of people who
“Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss. 22. Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among
“But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. 10. As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, 11. knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned” (Titus 3:9-11).
“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord” (Col. 3:20). A similar thought is found in Eph. 6:1-3, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2. Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3. that it may go well with you and
“Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving” (Eph. 5:4). This is one of those verses that I wish we could print on billboards, in newspapers, magazines, and all over the internet. I suppose there has never been a time when
“I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me” (Jer. 32:40). To fully understand “the fear of God,” one must first understand the meaning of the word,
