Category: 1 & 2 Timothy

Final Words

Over the last year, we spent many quiet mornings sitting next to a giant. He wasn’t 10 feet tall in stature, but he was big in heart. My Cuban Abuelo was married for 70 years to the same woman, worked hard, and loved well. He was the patriarch and centerpiece

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God’s Word for Life’s Seasons

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. – 2 Timothy 3:14-15

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Don’t Be Influenced By Godlessness

Have you ever noticed that people who start spending a lot of time together often begin to share the same sayings, mannerisms, and expressions? They will even start to laugh in a similar way. People have the ability to influence those around them, especially those with whom they closely associate.

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Speak Life…

It seems that my house is a buzz of constant noise these days. Whether it’s from the sheer volume of six people constantly interacting, the energy of multiple teenagers, our revolving front door that welcomes a regular flow of neighborhood kids, or it’s dishes clanging or music playing or football

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The Word of God is Not Bound!

The last few weeks had left my body feeling the exhaustion of traveling through four countries with my husband and our five young children. When we finally arrived in East Asia, our friends and teammates were anxiously awaiting our arrival. It was late, we had just flown for fifteen hours,

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You Walk, Just Like Your Father

You talk with your hands, just like your mom. You laugh, just like your grandmother. You walk, just like your father. Have you heard comments like these before? We all possess traits passed down from our family, or simply acquired through our constant imitation.  These traits serve as a reminder,

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Guard the Gospel

  I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to live in a different time in history. A day when the world wasn’t so cynical, when tolerance wasn’t a religion, when success meant more than money and power, and when more people genuinely looked out for each other. But different

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Fight the Good Fight

Have you ever found yourself trying to be diligent, focused, and resolved in your spiritual walk, but somewhere along the way discipline starts to wane, life (and the world) gets crazy, and you find yourself either giving in to things you didn’t use to or getting drawn in to petty,

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Called to Represent

I sat on the couch in his office and prayed for God to help me to respond kindly. Across from me sat my boss who was a Christian man, and I worked at a Christian school. Over the course of several weeks, he had questioned my capabilities, misrepresented my motives,

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Loving Our Leadership

  Have you ever been in a church where the leadership is untrustworthy? Where the teaching has been unbiblical or very shallow? We went to a church once where the main text of the sermon was a magazine article! The Bible was just an add on. Needless to say we

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