Episodios

  • Episode 515: 2 Timothy 3 Part 4 Get In the Word!

    Episode 515: 2 Timothy 3 Part 4 Get In the Word!
    Dec 19 2025
    2 Timothy 3 is basically Paul warning Timothy to stay away from teachers who don’t teach truth. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to correct false teachers who have come in wreaking havoc in the church there. They have taught doctrines that sound truthful but when someone falls for it, they realize they have been deceived and they are left picking up the pieces from the destruction. Paul tells Timothy the word of God, (he is referring to the Old Testament) is God breathed and will teach people the truth and how to live a life pleasing to God. Paul tells Timothy he must remain faithful to what he has been taught. That’s some great advice for us today!
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    40 m
  • Episode 514: 2 Timothy 3 Part 3 Where Are You? I Can’t Find You...

    Episode 514: 2 Timothy 3 Part 3 Where Are You? I Can’t Find You...
    Dec 16 2025
    Looking back in your early years of life, how many of your friends that you were so close to, are still a part of your life? Probably not many, if I had to guess. Sure, they may be a friend on social media, but you haven’t heard from them in years. Paul has poured so much into the kingdom of God, traveling over the known world and preaching the gospel, being chased, beaten, stoned, persecuted in many ways, and now he is in chains, awaiting his death. Many of his coworkers have deserted him, deceivers have come in behind him trying to shame him and convince his followers to give up on him and follow them. So now he turns to Timothy...Timothy, you know me bro...Guard the truth.
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    43 m
  • Episode 513: 2 Timothy 3 Part 2 Vulnerable Women and Deceitful Men

    Episode 513: 2 Timothy 3 Part 2 Vulnerable Women and Deceitful Men
    Dec 11 2025
    Paul says in the last days people are going to be so evil and not care. It seems as if he is describing the world in 2025! He gives a long description of people and how empty their hearts are. Paul calls out deceitful men who prey on vulnerable women, gaining their confidence, only to take advantage of them in the end. He mentions two men by name that aren’t found in scripture, Jannes and Jambres. These two men, according to the Talmud and tradition, are the two magicians that stood against Moses before pharaoh. They were able to recreate some of the plagues but not all of them and their sins were exposed in the end. You can pretend to play church and deceive many people, but your sin will find you out! And you aren’t fooling God...He knows everything about you, including what is in your heart!
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    28 m
  • Episode 512: 2 Timothy 3 Part 1 Counterfeit Believers

    Episode 512: 2 Timothy 3 Part 1 Counterfeit Believers
    Dec 9 2025
    Paul warns Timothy of what is coming the near future: counterfeit believers. His description of these counterfeit believers sounds as if he is looking into our world today in 2025, but he isn't. He is speaking about people in his day and time that have turned against the truth and they are deceiving others, in particular, vulnerable women who give these deceiving men time and attention. Paul warns Timothy to stay away from such people...why? Because he doesn't want Timothy to be corrupted by their deception!
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    28 m
  • Episode 511: 2 Timothy 2 Part 4 I’m Caught In A Trap

    Episode 511: 2 Timothy 2 Part 4 I’m Caught In A Trap
    Dec 5 2025
    Elvis sang a song that said, “I’m caught in a trap...I can’t walk out...” He was talking about love. He loved someone and no matter what, he couldn’t walk away from the relationship because he loved that person. Paul talks about a different trap that people get caught in and that trap is set by Satan himself. He says these people are being held captive by Satan and doing whatever he desires. The sad thing is, they don’t even realized it. They think they are living life to the fullest and doing whatever they want, not caring what God thinks about it. Jesus came to set us free and they only way to be free is to be living for him which is Paul’s message to Timothy...stick with Jesus and pursue him!
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    48 m
  • Episode 510: 2 Timothy 2 Part 3 Work Hard to Receive His Approval

    Episode 510: 2 Timothy 2 Part 3 Work Hard to Receive His Approval
    Dec 2 2025
    There are many men and women way smarter than I will ever be but that doesn’t make their teaching right. I want to challenge you to read the bible for yourself and not study another man’s teaching and take it as gospel. Since the 1500s, man has fought and divided over teachings that are not from God, they are simply man’s ideas. Hundreds of denominations have formed from these teachings but before these teachings there was one church with one message. Paul said there is one foundation, Jesus, and we are to be careful on how we build upon that foundation. He also makes it clear there are things that Timothy, as well as us, are to do. We discuss these things in the second half of 2 Timothy.
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    45 m
  • Episode 509: 2 Timothy 2 Part 2 Man’s Ideas or God’s Word?

    Episode 509: 2 Timothy 2 Part 2 Man’s Ideas or God’s Word?
    Nov 28 2025
    How many times have you heard something like this, “You don’t have to do anything to be saved. Only believe.” I agree one hundred percent salvation is through faith in Christ given to us by his marvelous grace, but I am not sold on the “you don’t have to do anything” bit because if you are believing, you are doing something and Paul tells Timothy many things in chapter 2 that he must do in order to remain strong in his faith in Christ. In vs15 Paul tells Timothy to “work hard” and “be a good worker” so that he will “receive God’s approval.” James says that faith without works is dead. Most of this type of teaching came from a few people in the late 1500 to early 1600s. Believe what you will, but if I were you, I’d stick with the truth of God’s word over man’s opinion, especially when eternity is at stake!
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    30 m
  • Episode 508: 2 Timothy 2 Part 1 Pigs Will Always Be Pigs

    Episode 508: 2 Timothy 2 Part 1 Pigs Will Always Be Pigs
    Nov 25 2025
    When I was a young man in my late teens, I played drums at a big church in West Tennessee where Sam Austin was pastoring. He now pastors somewhere in Arkansas now and is an evangelist. He would sometimes say, “You can clean up a pig and win first prize at the county fair but as soon as you get that clean pig home, it’s running straight for the mud! Because that is what pigs do!” Paul tells Timothy, “Teach these truths to other trustworthy people who will be able to pass them on to others...” Some people just aren’t trustworthy, they take what they have been taught and do nothing with it, they just soak it all in and never share it, like pigs, they devour all the food and go play in the mud.
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    24 m