Author Archives: Crabtree Church Harpenden
Disciple focus: John
Disciple focus: Mary Magdalene
Disciple focus: Thomas
Disciple focus: Mary
Disciple focus: Peter
Preach the Word
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
Persevere and equip yourself
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
A worker approved by God
Those who cleanse themselves … will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work
A soldier, an athlete, a farmer
Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer. Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor’s crown except by competing according to the rules.