If Paul’s letter to Titus, his close companion and friend, were an essay written for a professor instead of a letter to a friend, the two sentences that make up verses 5-9 of chapter 1 would act as the thesis statement. Let’s take a look: 5 For this reason I left...

I mentioned in my previous article that we’d take a close look at the environment Titus lived in on Crete, as a man of God and warrior of grace, and commented that Crete might be more like your environment than you imagine. When life seems strange or difficult, we...