Instruction 20: Exercise Church Discipline
By Adam Brown – Sometimes chapter breaks are unfortunate disruptions to the flow of the text. Today’s passage (2 Timothy 2:22-3:9) is one such example. Neither 2 Timothy 2:22-26 nor…
Category: Instructions for the Household of God
Instruction 19: Address All Church Conflict by the Word of God
By Adam Brown – Second Timothy 2:15-21 begins the second half of the book. The first half (2 Timothy 1:3-2:14) focussed on enduring conflict in the local church. The second…
Instruction 18: Focus on Jesus Christ and the Promises of the Gospel
By Adam Brown – Timothy is enduring resistance and opposition in his local church. The cause? He has implemented the instructions mailed to him by his mentor, the apostle Paul…
Instruction 17: Intentionally Select and Strategically Disciple Faithful People
By Adam Brown – Discipleship is a chain that connects us, link by link, to the ministry of Jesus Christ. Just before He ascended into heaven, Jesus entrusted the Great…
Instruction 16: Persevere, Even When Facing Strong Internal Resistance
By Adam Brown – The first chapter of 2 Timothy can be summarized by a single word: Persevere. The driving sentiment of everything Paul says to Timothy in this chapter…
2 Timothy – A Letter of Encouragement to Embattled and Weary Churches
By Adam Brown – Having received a letter of instructions (1 Timothy) from Paul, Timothy set his energy to its implementation in the Ephesian church. Timothy’s commitment to that letter,…
Instruction 15: Fight the Good Fight of the Faith
By Adam Brown – We finally come to the last instruction for the church in the book of 1 Timothy. This instruction is to fight the good fight of the…
Instruction 14: Set Your Hopes on God – Not on Riches
By Adam Brown – This fourteenth instruction, that we are to set our hopes on God and not on riches, is a parenthetical thought that came to Paul while he…
