'If the Bible is true, then none of our fears are legitimate, none of our frustrations are permanent, and none of our opposition is significant.'
Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Do Justly Second, the Lord says, love mercy. The word translated mercy here sometimes it s translated lovingkindness has three concepts in it. First, there s a relationship between these people. They re not strangers; they have a relationship of some kind. One is having mercy toward the other. He s showing lovingkindness. The Bible [ ]
Part 1: Introduction The first thing that God says he desires of his people is to do justly, to do justice. That s the Hebrew word mishpat. This is the decision of a judge. What does a judge do? In the biblical context, the judge would hear the case and then he would ask, What does [ ]
When Jesus was asked what was the greatest commandment in the law, we all know that he went to Deuteronomy 6.4-5. Perhaps you ve heard why he was asked about that: among the rabbis there was a long discussion about what was the greatest commandment in the law. You can read in the literature of the [ ]
Like most people, I ve always liked humor. During my Cub Scout days, when I had a subscription to Boys Life magazine, I always turned first to the last page, Think and Grin, which was a whole page a whole page! of jokes. I d spend the next few days trying them on my family, with only middling success. [ ]
Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Accessing the Enablement Part 3: The Offices Part 4: The Qualities Part 5: Case Studies Part 6: Contentment Part 7: Loyalty Part 8: Commitment Part 9: Endurance Part 10: Summary In Part 9 of this series I raised the issue of the outcome of Paul s hearing before Caesar after the end of the book of [ ]
Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Accessing the Enablement Part 3: The Offices Part 4: The Qualities Part 5: Case Studies Part 6: Contentment Part 7: Loyalty Part 8: Commitment Part 9: Endurance So what have we learned? We ve started with the premise that although there is a place for full-time Christian service and a vocational ministry, the Scripture calls all believers [ ]
Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Accessing the Enablement Part 3: The Offices Part 4: The Qualities Part 5: Case Studies Part 6: Contentment Part 7: Loyalty Part 8: Commitment Paul spends the last half of 2 Timothy focused on a single theme: endurance. The logical progress here is evident: the servant s contentment in God s [ ]
Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Accessing the Enablement Part 3: The Offices Part 4: The Qualities Part 5: Case Studies Part 6: Contentment Part 7: Loyalty With chapter 2 of this shorter epistle to Timothy, Paul turns to a slightly different nuance of the characteristics of ministry. He s just discussed loyalty and noted that God [ ]
Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Accessing the Enablement Part 3: The Offices Part 4: The Qualities Part 5: Case Studies Part 6: Contentment Paul writes a second letter to Timothy. This second epistle begins with the standard epistolary opening authors, recipients, benediction and then an opening prayer of thanksgiving, which Paul includes in most but not all of [ ]
Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Accessing the Enablement Part 3: The Offices Part 4: The Qualities Part 5: Case Studies Paul finishes his first epistle to Timothy by focusing on another characteristic of servants, or ministers: contentment. He begins the final chapter by speaking to actual physical servants, those who are owned by their masters. The intervening [ ]