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Bible Passage:  1 John 2 Elder John gave an overall good assessment of the spiritual state of the believers then. Refer to verses 12 to 14 of this chapter. He mentioned that the children have ‘known the Father’, the young men are ‘strong, abided in the word of God’ and have ‘overcome the wicked one’ [...]

Bible Passage:  1 John 1 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life— 2 the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that [...]

People need reminders every now and then so that they can do things right or not to do the wrong things. In this final portion of Paul’s letter to Titus, Paul wanted Titus to remind his flock to be diligent in good works. Bible Passage: Titus 3 Remind them to be subject to rulers and [...]

Bible Passage:  Titus 2 A sound church is a people who are sensible and competent, healthy and strong… S ome time ago Paul wrote to Titus, a young pastor of the church at Crete who faced the ‘unenviable (the-I-don’t-feel-like-doing-it) assignment’ of establishing order in the church. O ld or young, men and women, each member had an essential role [...]

Bible Passage:  Titus 1 In today’s chapter, Paul instructed Titus to appoint elders or overseers and gave some guidelines as to the kind of characters that would make the mark. For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for [...]

Bible Passage:  2 Timothy 4 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, [...]

Bible Passage: 2 Timothy 3 How do we keep ourselves from being defiled by this corrupt world? Will this world become ever more corrupt and do we find ourselves entangled or even deceived by it? Almost 2000 years ago, Paul had already warned about this corruption. Back then, the society was already so corrupted, what [...]

Bible Passage:  2 Timothy 2 Did you realise we came across at least three times of a faithful saying in Paul’s first epistle to Timothy – ref I Tim 1:15, 3:1 and 4:8-9. This is a Faithful Saying! This was in no way a representation that the rest of the teaching in this Bible was [...]

Bible Passage:  2 Timothy 1 Words only get their real meaning within a certain context. When Paul wrote his second letter to Timothy, he was actually waiting for death—waiting to be martyred for the sake of the gospel. Yet, he was able to give thanks to God from his heart. Yes, He even continued to [...]

Bible Passage:  1 Timothy 6 At the end of this pastoral epistle to Timothy, Paul once more exhorts this young man to hold on to sound doctrine, i.e. the pure word of God. Just as it was at the time of Timothy, today’s world is filled with various philosophies, cultures, lifestyles, etc., that often exert [...]