2 Timothy 4:2

We are to have an answer in season and out. What seeds are you planting in the lives of others as you go about your daily tasks?…

Are you bored with your local church? Are you sick of the same four walls, talking with the same people, and sitting under the same pastor week after week? If you’ve succumbed to the sinful misconception that church is intended to satisfyyourever-changing desires—that the church is meant to appeal to personal tastes and to follow …

There are universal traits of believers which reveal the unity in diversity in the Christian fellowship. Traits, focused on God’s kingdom.…

Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. -2 Timothy 4:2, NIV To be helped, we need to be open to receiving. Maybe the Christian community turned on you when you decided to divorce your cheater or your cheater decided to divorce you? Maybe your cheater … Continue reading “Pastor Associated By Faithful Spouses”…

Coming Home? In Season and out of Season by Jan Cox This is always the hardest post for me. To write about “Coming home” from a mission trip in jet lag; trying to think of all that I have seen and done in the past two weeks. What can I say that will impact lives?… Continue reading COMING HOME? IN SEASON AND OUT OF SEASON…

Summer is when we all take a big long break. But there is one thing that we never get to take a break from – can you guess what it is? Yep, it’s being a minister of the gospel!…

In the closing lines of his final epistle, the apostle Paul charges Timothy, his young apprentice in the faith, to “Preach the word;be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction” (2 Timothy 4:2, emphasis added). You may read that verse and wonder, as many have, what Paul …

Get your doctrine straight! Years ago, C.S.Lewis gave this warning: “If you do not listen…

While this is not directed at anyone in particular (I have heard these comments from several quarters), I wanted to make a statement, again, as to why I am blogging. I am responding to those who suggest I am doing this for my own therapeutic gain. This is a misunderstanding of my purpose. To be … Continue reading “Must Be Therapeutic For Him…”…

Why put the adultery victim on trial but not the cheater? One of the most backwards pieces in my ecclesiastical trial to retain my minister’s license was how I was on trial for being cheated on and divorced by my ex-wife. Even after such cheating and abandonment was established (my ex-wife was the one insisting … Continue reading “Why put the adultery victim on trial for being victimized?”…