As a child in the 1980s, I went to very good Sunday school each week. But suddenly the other kids in my Sunday school class started disappearing from church. And over a period of a couple of years, the group went from sizeable and thriving to just two of us. Over the same period, the…

In Titus 2, Paul talks about how God showed his grace though Jesus by cleansing us of our sins and now wants us to be “eager to do good works”. He writes (CSB): For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, instructing us to deny godlessness and worldly lusts and to…

Paul writes to his missionary friend Titus in Crete to address a problem that has arisen in the local church. Some people on the Greek island are probably running small house churches with the wrong motivations. The letter suggests that they are only interested in money, have lots of weird theological ideas, and behave badly.…