For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly, while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. He […]
Daily Devotion 12th July 2018
I was horrified to learn that in 1791, when a bill to abolish the slave trade lost in the House of Commons, Church bells rang out in celebration. This piece of Scripture is a real challenge. At the time that it was written, perhaps, a third of people in the Roman world were slaves. Many […]
Daily Devotion by Richard Church
Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. Show yourself in all respects a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, gravity, and sound speech that cannot be censured; then any opponent will be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us. Reflection When Dr Billy Graham died, full of […]
Daily Devotion 10th July 2018
The writer of this ‘instruction leaflet’ is certainly going through a long list of who should do what and how, so that Titus, as leader of the new and struggling Christian community in Crete has definite guidelines on how Christians could stand out in the community in which they live and work. Having told the […]
Daily Devotion 9th July 2018
This shortest of short passages raises many questions and challenging ideas for me, not least is how to address them in a short reflection. Just how might we identify what is sound doctrine or what might be consistent with it? Then follows the challenge, for me, that it is to the older men that the […]
Daily Devotion 8th July 2018
1 Save me, O God, by your great name;with pow’r deliver me.2 Hear, O my God, the words I speakand listen to my plea. 3 For strangers are attacking me;the ruthless seek my life,For they have no regard for Godand always stir up strife. 4 Consider this: God is my help;the Lord upholds my way.5 […]
Daily Devotion 7th July 2018
There are also many rebellious people, idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision; they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach. It was one of them, their very own prophet, who said, ‘Cretans are always liars, vicious brutes, lazy […]
Daily Devotion by Jacky Embrey
For a bishop, as God’s steward, must be blameless; he must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or addicted to wine or violent or greedy for gain; but he must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, prudent, upright, devout, and self-controlled. He must have a firm grasp of the word that is trustworthy in accordance with […]
Daily Devotion by Val Morrison
I left you behind in Crete for this reason, that you should put in order what remained to be done, and should appoint elders in every town, as I directed you: someone who is blameless, married only once, whose children are believers, not accused of debauchery and not rebellious Reflection Paul’s mandate to Titus. I […]
Daily Devotion by Joshua Thomas
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and the knowledge of the truth that is in accordance with godliness, in the hope of eternal life that God, who never lies, promised before the ages began— in due time he revealed his word […]