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…
Ready for Christmas?
By Adam Brown – [The following is an open letter I sent to my church today] December 20, 2017 Dear Southshore Family, We are five days until Christmas Day. Four…
Acceptable Sacrifice: Cain and Abel
By Peter Brown – The account of Cain and Abel as recorded in Genesis 4:1-7 has long been considered a puzzling and potentially problematic portion of Scripture, albeit a well…
Instruction 13: Beware of Conceited, Ignorant, Oppositional, and Quarrelsome People in the Church
By Adam Brown – The thirteenth instruction for the Church is that we are to beware of conceited, ignorant, oppositional, and quarrelsome people in the church. This is about as…
Instruction 12: Workers are to Regard Their Employers as Worthy of All Honour
By Adam Brown – In 1 Timothy 5, we are told that we are to honour those who cannot help themselves (widows), that we are to consider elders who rule…
