Podcast Episode 534

Today’s Reading, 2 Timothy 1-4

Title: Pastoral Expectations

Focal Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:2

“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and teaching.”

Tomorrow, I plan on reading Titus 1-3 & Philemon 1

Podcast Episode 533

Today’s Reading, 1 Timothy 1-6

Title: Pastoral Qualifications

Focal Scripture: 1 Timothy 3:2-3

“An overseer, therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not an excessive drinker, not a bully but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy.”

Tomorrow, I plan on reading 2 Timothy 1-4

Podcast Episode 532

Today’s Reading, 2 Thessalonians 1-3

Title: Tradition is Not Always Bad

Focal Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:15

“So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold to the traditions you were taught, whether by what we said or what we wrote.”

Tomorrow, I plan on reading 1 Timothy 1-6

Podcast Episode 531

Today’s Reading, 1 Thessalonians 1-5

Title: Forever With the Lord

Focal Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:17

“Then we who are still alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.”

Tomorrow, I plan on reading 2 Thessalonians 1-3

Podcast Episode 530

Today’s Reading, Colossians 1-4

Title: Walk Worthy, Bear Fruit, & Grow in Knowledge

Focal Scripture: Colossians 1:10

“so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God,”

Tomorrow, I plan on reading 1 Thessalonians 1-5

Podcast Episode 529

Today’s Reading, Philippians 1-4

Title: What is Your Goal in Your Christian Walk?

Focal Scripture: Philippians 3:10

“My goal is to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,”

Tomorrow, I plan on reading Colossians 1-4

Podcast Episode 528

Today’s Reading, Ephesians 4-6

Title: Do You Have A Hard Heart?

Focal Scripture: Ephesians 4:18

“They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.”

Tomorrow, I plan on reading Philippians 1-4

Podcast Episode 527

Today’s Reading, Ephesians 1-3

Title: The Down Payment of Our Inheritance

Focal Scripture: Ephesians 1:14

“The Holy Spirit is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory.”

Tomorrow, I plan on reading Ephesians 4-6

Podcast Episode 526

Today’s Reading, Galatians 4-6

Title: Battle Between Flesh and Spirit

Focal Scripture: Galatians 5:17

“For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and theSpirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.”

Tomorrow, I plan on reading Ephesians 1-3

Podcast Episode 525

Today’s Reading, Galatians 1-3

Title: Please God Over People

Focal Scripture: Galatians 1:10

“For am I now trying to persuade people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.”

Tomorrow, I plan on reading Galatians 4-6