2 Timothy 4:10-17

"Dear Father, Help me not to be in love with this present world. Enable me to live for the sake of your everlasting kingdom. Help me come to the..."

Are you planting any seeds for tomorrow? Ron Rose reminds us that we need to be investing in the future by helping others see the potential that God has for them.

"Dear Friend, I want you to feel the urgency in today's words that Paul wrote to Timothy. They come from the last of Paul's writings to his son in the..."

When do you want our young people to start? We cannot wait for our teens and young adults to grow older before we use them in service to the Kingdom.

"But the Lord stayed with me and gave me strength so I could fully tell the Good News to all those who are not Jews. So I was saved from the lion’s..."

Can a failure be useful again? Just as key people did with John Mark in moving him from failure to useful, so too, good leaders must recycle.

Why do we present our children such a passionless discipleship? Phil Ware challenges us to a life of passionate discipleship and challenge our children to follow with boldness, using the life of Paul.

What lesson can an old abandoned clock teach us? Too many people are put on the back shelf of life and we need to find them and reclaim them just as Baranabas once did.

Our God is the God of surprising opportunities, fresh hope, and new life. Phil Ware reminds us of John Mark's failure when he deserted the mission field and the mission team and describes how God used this mess and the grace, mercy, and love of godly men to bring great good out of potential disaster.

Do you have goals that make your life's hardships worthwhile? How we view the goal of our life directly determines how we approach life between here and its end.