Iron Grip: 2 Timothy 2:8-15 - 10th Sunday after Pentecost
The more I learn of the Apostle Paul, the more I think of him as the action hero of the New Testament, like the Indiana Jones of missionaries. He travels all throughout the Roman world, establishing and strengthening the churches, but his enemies are never far behind. Every time they attempt to seize him or kill him, he miraculously escapes. Shortly after his conversion, he evades arrest Damascus by being lowered from a basket from the city walls. He survives beatings, floggings, and stonings. In Philippi, God sends an earthquake to break him out of jail. His foes repeatedly try and fail to have him arrested by the Roman authorities. He’s shipwrecked on his way to Rome, he eludes an assassination conspiracy, he escapes before the mobs can seize him. Not that he deserves all the credit: the believers aid his every death-defying escape. Image by günter from Pixabay Paul never believed he was invincible. He was a servant of the Gospel. He understood it was for the Gospel’s sake that...
