I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7 As an adult, I always enjoyed working out to stay in shape. My father was my example and encouragement. When he was 68 and I was 30, he had a heart attack. When I was young, I remember running around the parade field at Edgewood Arnsel Army Base in Maryland with my dad. However, when he retired from the army, he put on 75 pounds and stopped exercising. After the heart attack, he los

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. 2 Timothy 4:2-4 Today I am deviating from the sermon series in Matthew to answer the call from Pastor Joh

…for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. 2 Timothy 1:7 When Paul wrote this letter to Timothy he was in prison in Rome waiting for his execution. In a very short time after writing this letter Paul would lose his life for the sake of proclaiming the Gospel. He is writing to encourage Timothy to stand firm in the faith, not to be ashamed of Christ, and to live a life without fear. The Greek word translated “fear”, basically means cowardice,