The Judgment of the False Teachers

In today’s Bible reading*, Peter paints a very sad picture of the state of the false teachers. Worship leader and songwriter, Billy Foote’s song, “All the Wolves” paraphrases Peter’s words. Destructive heresies. Greed. Made-up stories. Bold arrogant people. Slander. Spots. Blemishes. Delighting in their deceptions. Eyes full of adultery, never stopping to look for sin….

Go and Bear Fruit

Jesus gives us our purpose in today’s Bible reading*: bear fruit. He is the true Vine. And Believers are branches attached to the True Vine. The responsibilities of the branches are to stay connected with the Vine and let the life of the Vine flow through them. Union and Communion. As long as a Believer…

From Comfort to Pain

I mentioned yesterday the importance of noting repeated words and phrases in a limited number of Bible verses. In today’s Bible reading*, “pain” and its derivatives occur seven times in 2 Corinthians 2:1-7. Evidently, not all was well between the Apostle and the church at Corinth. Where the first paragraph in 2 Corinthians 1 was…