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“Encouragement for St. Timidity” (2 Timothy 1:1-14) Fear, or timidity, can paralyze a person and render him ineffective. This is true when it comes to our life as Christians. We live in a hostile world. We’re in enemy territory. The world is not friendly to the Christian faith. Where will we find the courage we need to be faithful Christians? Faithful Christians are those not ashamed of the gospel, nor afraid of suffering for it. Not ashamed, not afraid. The alternative is that we turn into tame and timid “people-pleasers.” St. Paul addresses this issue when he writes to Timothy...

Good evening!I'm a day late on this (been working some ridiculous hours). However I finally got home from work early enough to post this week's "Why the New Testament Was Written" vlog. This week, in part 9, we're talking about why Paul Wrote I Timothy.Why Paul Wrote I TimothyVideo clocks in at 11:31. Normally with first-and-second books of the New Testament we talk about both in one video, but Paul wrote to Timothy twice for very different reasons. This also gave me a chance to talk about gnosticism, which some historians believe originated in Ephesus and was the false doctrine...

The Octave of the Assumption (The Immaculate Heart of Mary);Commemoration of Saints Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorian, Martyrs White Double of the Second Class HE ALONE WHO COULD UNDERSTAND Mary’s holiness could appreciate her glory. But Wisdom, who presided over the formation of the abyss, has not revealed to us the depth of that ocean, beside which all the virtues of the just and all the graces lavished upon them are but streamlets. Nevertheless, the immensity of grace and merit, whereby the Blessed Virgin’s supernatural perfection stands quite apart from all others, gives us a right to conclude that she...

Red Double BEFORE GIVING THANKS to God for the miraculous Conversion of the Apostle of the Gentiles, the Church assembles us together for the Feast of his favorite Disciple. Timothy—the indefatigable companion of St. Paul—the friend to whom the great Apostle, a few days before shedding his blood for Christ, wrote his last Epistle—comes now to await his master’s arrival at the Crib of the Emmanuel. He there meets John the Beloved Disciple, together with whom he bore the anxieties attendant on the government of the Church of Ephesus; Stephen, too, and the other Martyrs, welcome him for he...

“I am Sending Timothy” - A Brief Summary of St. Paul’s Letters to the Thessalonians Msgr. Charles Pope • August 21, 2016 • In daily Mass this week (21st Week of the Year) we are reading from the Second Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians. I thought it might be helpful to present some notes I have assembled over the years from various sources. My goal is to bring the text a bit more alive and to provide some context.Overall context – St. Paul’s ministry in Thessalonica was cut short due to persecution, and after he left he had...

“The Lystran Women’s Missionary League” (2 Timothy 1:1-14)Today is “LWML Sunday,” and so this morning I want to recognize and honor the work of the LWML, that is, “The Lystran Women’s Missionary League.” The “What” Women’s Missionary League? “Lystran”: What’s that? I thought “LWML” stood for the “Lutheran” Women’s Missionary League. Well, yeah, and we’ll get to them, but first I want to talk about this Lystran group. Not very big. Just two of them, in fact. Names were Lois and Eunice. One’s a mom, the other’s a grandma. (Let’s see, I can never remember which one is which.) But...

"We think there's still a very strong case for more work by Washington ... It's important to find a way to put some additional incentives in place for business investment and to start a substantial, multi-year program of investment in infrastructure," he said at a conference. "We're still at a time where the economy needs some reinforcement."

“INSIDE OBAMA’S WASHINGTON” A POLITICO Video Series January 25, 2010 (Recorded January 22, 2010) INTERVIEWER: MIKE ALLEN, Chief White House Correspondent GUEST: TIMOTHY GEITHNER, Treasury Secretary CHAPTER 1 MR. ALLEN: Hello. I'm Mike Allen, White House correspondent of POLITICO. Welcome to POLITICO’s video series, "Inside Obama's Washington." We're here at the Treasury Department with Secretary Tim Geithner. Welcome, Mr. Secretary. SECRETARY GEITHNER: Nice to see you, Mike. MR. ALLEN: How confident are you that a clear recovery will be underway by this spring? SECRETARY GEITHNER: Very confident. The economy is healing. It's growing. It's more broad based. You see the...

In these verses the Apostle Paul shows the reasons why he or anyone whose life is known, can be trusted, in the midst of those who are not only deceived but are deceiving others as well. This is a mark of the last days. 2 Timothy 3:10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, 1.”But thou hast fully known my…” a. Timothy was already a disciple when Paul came through Lystra on the second missionary journey. This means of course he got saved when Paul was there during the first missionary journey,...

“Itching Ears for Switching Errors” (2 Tim. 3:14 – 4:5)For six weeks now, our Epistle reading has come from St. Paul’s two letters to Timothy. Throughout these epistles, over and over again, St. Paul emphasizes to his young assistant the importance of teaching in accord with sound doctrine. For instance, Paul instructs Timothy to “follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me” and to “guard the good deposit entrusted to you.” Likewise today he says to “continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed.” Paul puts a high priority on sound doctrine. It...

“But the Word of God Is Not Bound!” (2 Tim. 2:1-13)Do you ever feel like you are constrained, held back, weighed down, by forces too powerful for you? Do you feel like you’re the prisoner of things too big for you to overcome? Perhaps it’s age. You feel the advancing years taking their toll on you. Perhaps it’s sickness. You get over one thing, and then it’s something else. More pills, more trips to the doctor. You feel like a prisoner in your own body. Perhaps it’s a guilty conscience that’s weighing you down, as you sense your own failings...

“Not Ashamed, Not Afraid: Encouragement for ‘St. Timidity’” (2 Timothy 1:1-14)Fear, or timidity, can paralyze a person and render him ineffective. Especially is that true when it comes to our life as Christians in a hostile world. We’re in enemy territory, and the bullets are whizzing all around us. Where will we find the courage we need to be faithful Christians? Faithful Christians are those who are not ashamed of the gospel, nor afraid of suffering for it. Not ashamed, not afraid. The alternative is that we turn into tame and timid “people-pleasers.” This is the issue that Paul addresses...

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As you are reading this, there are 14 major conflicts taking place on the globe. Of those 14, on at least one side of each are Muslims, or "practitioners of the religion of peace." As far as I'm concerned, the only truth stretching GWB has committed thus far was his proclamation of Islam as a "religion of peace, case closed." Sure, there are some kooky things in the Bible, but I don't see radical Christian fundamentalists running out to kill indiscriminately as a result of whatever it might be that they believe. Minus an abortion doctor here or there, it...

On June 12, 1944, just six days after D-Day in World War II, a young lieutenant named Richard Winters led his men to the outskirts of Carentan. As the officer in charge of Easy Company, of the 101st Airborne, he was tasked to clear the large French town of its German defenders. It would be a small battle, but it played a significant role in the massive effort to rid the world of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. As Winters led his company up the road toward town, the company started taking machine gun fire from a German MG42. The...

January 26, 2004Memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, bishops Psalm: Monday 7 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading I2 Tm 1:1-8 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of Godfor the promise of life in Christ Jesus,to Timothy, my dear child:grace, mercy, and peace from God the Fatherand Christ Jesus our Lord. I am grateful to God,whom I worship with a clear conscience as my ancestors did,as I remember you constantly in my prayers, night and day.I yearn to see you again, recalling your tears,so that I may be filled with joy, as I recall your sincere faiththat...

An Open Letter to the Board of Visitors of the College of William & Mary December 18, 2003 Dear Board of Visitors: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) unites leaders in the fields of civil rights and civil liberties, scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals across the political and ideological spectrum on behalf of liberty, freedom of religion, academic freedom, legal equality, due process, and—at the College of William & Mary—freedom of speech and expression on America's college campuses. Our website, www.thefire.org, will give you a greater sense of our identity and activities. You may already be aware of...

Just read this and thought other freepers might like to know.The Freeper is FRmag from NM. Let me share an email I just got from Frmag. "I'm a grandpa again. Howard and Kirsten's daughter Crystal-Lynn Maguire was born at 0745 MDT today. She weighs 7 pounds 10 ounces and is 20" long and has red hair and blue eyes.Mother and daughter doing fine. Howard has the camera and I should have first pics this afternoon. " To e-mail the proud grampa, mom and dad, click here. Praise GOD!!!

Though the U.S. government clings to the notion that Timothy McVeigh, acting alone, set off the horrendous explosion on April 19, 1995, that pancaked the nine-story Oklahoma City federal building, a former high-ranking CIA official says there's solid evidence to indicate he worked with an Iraqi John Doe No. 2. Larry Johnson, former CIA officer and deputy director of the State Department's Office of Counterterrorism, told a network news show this week the FBI had failed to properly investigate significant eyewitness accounts of McVeigh meeting with the man believed to be a former Iraqi soldier. Johnson made those comments on...