Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of

redemption and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it

points to Jesus. Hi friends and welcome back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. My name is

Shelby Turner. I'm one of your hosts for this podcast and today we are

going to talk about the book of Titus.

If you haven't yet, go check out my intro video for this book on our Daily Grace

Podcast Instagram account.

There I'll share some important background information about the book and if you want

further resources to help you study the Bible in a year I'd love for you to check out our

website daily graceco.com and look for the story of redemption series,

which will walk you through every day's reading

with a quick and applicable study.

All right, let's talk about the book of Titus.

The Apostle Paul wrote this book as a letter to his ministry partner, Titus.

Paul had just planted several churches on the island of Crete,

and he had left Titus there to build up these churches. But the churches were struggling, mainly

because of two reasons. One, Christianity was very different from the way they had been living.

Crete was well known for being a horribly immoral, violent, and corrupt place.

And two, there were false teachers on the island of Crete,

and they were trying to make the new Christ followers uphold Old Testament laws,

but the only reason they were doing this was for their own financial gain.

With all that in mind, chapter one is going to make a lot more sense.

...