Chapter three begins with a sad look at the state of the Church falling further and further from Christ (2 Timothy 3:1-9). This passage is often used to describe the modern world in which we live, but it is actually a description of the Church. Most people of the world have no interest in maintaining […]
Chapter two continues with a few analogies, a few commands, and a few reminders. First, Paul used the analogies of a soldier and a farmer to illustrate the focus required to serve God well (2 Timothy 2:1-7). Just like a soldier cannot be concerned with things around him when he is in training and in
Psalm 34 provides a definite time when David wrote it, “when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, causing the king to send him away.” This story can be found in 1 Samuel 21. Running from King Saul, David went to the Philistine city of Gath. When they discovered who he was (the hero who
