Keeping the Faith || Alice Meads

Sunday 11th January 2025 - Central AM & PM
Sunday 18th January 2025 - West and North Sites

Speaker - Alice Meads

Alice continues with our series looking at Paul's second letter to Timothy. Though Paul's circumstances and prospects were extremely bleak, he reminds Timothy - and us - that we are never short-changed in God's Kingdom.
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2 Timothy 1 v 8-18
8) So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God. 9) He has saved us and called us to a holy life – not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, 10) but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Saviour, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 11) And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. 12) That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
13) What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. 14) Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you – guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.
15) You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
16) May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains. 17) On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me. 18) May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many ways he helped me in Ephesus.
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Recorded at the North Site - 18Jan2026