Tag: Matthew

  • Reintroducing John – a Biography and Background

    Biography of a Man I wrestle with my own autobiography, let alone writing about the ancestry of such an important man of God as John. We struggle to understand anyone once we read such titles or relational roles of JESUS or any of the Lord’s Apostles. For instance, who do you see when I refer…

    John disciple of John the Baptist and Jesus the long faithful journey to Apostle Elder of the Church pictured as young man and old man
  • Confront and Correct with a Clear Conscience

    (the Apostle Paul seems to imply by asking Timothy to be strong…) Remind them of these things: 2 Timothy 2:14a Paul builds up Timothy and other pastors true to following the Way of Jesus Christ. And further, the Apostle would confront false teachers by binding them with an oath. .. and solemnly charge them in…

    CONFRONT CORRECT with a CLEAR CONSCIENCE Paul speaks TRUTH to Timothy
  • 2 Timothy 2 – Strong Teachers Charge them before God

    More than thirty years earlier the Apostle Peter preaching on Pentecost had charged all Israel to accept JESUS as both God and Christ: “This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses… And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”…

    a second epistle of the Apostle Paul from Rome: to Timothy