Titus 2:11-15 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself …
Category Archives: RTB 2020 – Epistles
October 3 / Titus 2:1-10
Titus 2:1-10 As I looked at Paul’s instructions to Timothy regarding older men, I paused and asked myself how I measured up on Paul’s six items. Then I asked myself further how Carol would evaluate me on those six items. That would probably be the better evaluation! …train the young women to love their husbands …
October 2 / Titus 1:10-16
Titus 1:10-16 To the pure, all things are pure… (v. 15a) Nothing particularly special about this verse (in my mind), except in context. It is the only (partial) verse in today’s reading that is positive! Every other verse is blasting away at “those of the circumcision party”, Cretans, “the defiled and unbelieving” with descriptors like …
October 1 / Titus 1:1-9
Titus 1:1-9 Titus! I presume that most of you would have been expecting II Timothy to follow immediately after I Timothy. But you have to remember that we are reading chronologically – well, as chronologically correct as The Chronological Study Bible may be. So Titus comes between the two Timothy epistles. One other note from …
October 2020 Readings
Date Reading(s) Verses 01-Oct Titus 1:1-9 9 02-Oct Titus 1:10-16 7 03-Oct Titus 2:1-10 10 04-Oct Titus 2:11-15 5 05-Oct Titus 3:1-8 8 06-Oct Titus 3:9-15 7 07-Oct II Timothy 1:1-7 7 08-Oct II Timothy 1:8-12 5 09-Oct II Timothy 1:13-18 6 10-Oct II Timothy 2:1-13 13 11-Oct II Timothy 2:14-26 13 12-Oct II Timothy …
September 30 / I Timothy 6:17-21
I Timothy 6:17-21 They [the rich] are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life. (vv. 18-19) Paul gives us good advice …
September 29 / I Timothy 6:11-16
I Timothy 6:11-16 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called… (v. 12a) Paul gives Timothy two admonitions here – that he (and we?) need to fight for “the faith” and that we need to more regularly consider that we are called to eternal life. …
September 28 / I Timothy 6:1-10
I Timothy 6:1-10 Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. (v. 2) At first this seemed to be a strange comment from Paul, in that he already …
September 27 / I Timothy 5:17-25
I Timothy 5:17-25 My Study Bible guided me well this morning – almost the entire reading today is speaking about elders, all except the last three verses. Seeing this reading in its full context makes it more clear than taking a verse out of context. Today’s first three verses obviously point to elders. However, verse …
September 26 / I Timothy 5:11-16
I Timothy 5:11-16 But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith. (vv. 11-12) I can’t speak directly to this topic, but Carol and I do have some connection to this sort of outcome. We …