As far as invitations go, you mightn’t think too much of this one! We like invitations that speak of fellowship, personal advantage, even comfort but an invitation to join someone in suffering, for the gospel, isn’t really that exciting. I can well imagine that young Timothy would think to himself, “I’m not at all sure […]

The verse we are looking at tonight is the key verse around which Martyn Lloyd Jones writes his book, “I am not ashamed.” I personally have always found this verse encouraging and I suppose it has some nostalgia for me as when I was growing up Mum used to belong to a choir, and they […]

I think one of the reasons as to why we are so often ashamed to stand up for Jesus, is because we have taken for granted what Christ has come to achieve. Why would we be embarrassed about our Christian faith, or embarrassed about Christ or embarrassed about the preachers of God in the world? […]

Timothy is encouraged to fan into flame the ministry that he has. I think all of us know about getting oxygen into the fire. Anyone that has ever made a fire knows how important it is to get as much oxygen in there as possible. Thus, we wave madly about with newspaper or in the […]

What we see here is someone who says he is converted, says he is the servant of the master, who is living as if there is no master, no king or ruler in his life. It is the so called converted – living the unconverted life. He isn’t ready because he has simply dismissed the […]