Articles for tag: Fourth Missionary Journey

June 25, 2013

By Mark A. Taylor “It”s hard to imagine no crying and no mourning.” The statement came from a group member when our weekly Bible study was nearing the end of Revelation. We had stopped to ponder the significance of Revelation 21:3, 4: And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God”s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. “˜He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death” or mourning or

May 6, 2007

Christian Standard

Discipleship & Spiritual Formation

Demas Has Forsaken Me

By C. Robert Wetzel The apostle Paul is in jail again. It is hardly a new experience for him. Like a common villain, he has seen the insides of several jails. But there is something different about this imprisonment. To begin with, he is feeling his age in a way he had not when he was imprisoned in Philippi or Jerusalem. The cold damp of the dungeon is going right to his bones. He writes his young friend Timothy and says, “Bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas . . .” (2 Timothy 4:13). Something else is