Focus: 2 Timothy 4:16-17All forsook me … But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the message might be preached fully through me, and that all the Gentiles might hear. Also I was delive...  Read More

Focus: 2 Timothy 4:13Bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas when you come—and the books, especially the parchments. Reflect:Students in the preaching class were nervous. The time had arrived...  Read More

Focus: 2 Timothy 4:8Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His...  Read More

Focus: 2 Timothy 4:7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Reflect:In a marathon race, the finish line is a place of triumph, terror, and torment. Video clips s...  Read More

Focus: 2 Timothy 4:6For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. Reflect:Tea is to Britain what coffee is to North America—a cup of cheer and some ca...  Read More

Focus: 2 Timothy 4:5But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. Reflect:The Baptist minister shook his head gravely. “I asked the Lord f...  Read More

Focus: 2 Timothy 4:3-4For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; an...  Read More

Focus: 2 Timothy 4:2bBe ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. Reflect:The Great Anglican preacher George Whitfield [1714-1770] returned from...  Read More

Focus: 2 Timothy 4:1-2aI charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word!Reflect:The great 20th cent...  Read More

Focus: 2 Timothy 3:16-17Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another—showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through ...  Read More

Focus: 2 Timothy 3:13-14But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from...  Read More

Focus: 2 Timothy 3:12Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. Reflect:In their book Two Tears on the Window, Canadian missionaries Julia and Kevin Garratt recount...  Read More