PEARLS FROM TITUS AND PHILEMON

A Bible Study

By: H.K. Holland

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Two short letters from Paul. Two completely different situations. Both more urgent than they first appear.

The first is addressed to Titus, a young leader trying to hold firm in one of the most corrupt societies of his day. The second is an apology letter to Philemon on behalf of Onesimus, a runaway slave who had stolen from his master, fled to Rome, and somehow found his way to Paul. Whatever the circumstances of that meeting, Onesimus walked away a changed man. Writing from prison, Paul asked Philemon to receive him back, not as property, but as a beloved brother. In the Roman world, that was nothing short of revolutionary.

In this volume of the Pearls series, H.K. Holland goes into these two letters and brings out what most readers miss. What it means that God cannot lie, and why that changes everything. What we are supposed to do with our lives in the time between Christ's first appearance and his second. And the story of Onesimus: how the gospel turned a thief into a brother, and why Paul called that the most natural thing in the world.

Two letters. Fewer than five chapters between them. And enough grace inside them to last a lifetime.