In the previous five blogs on goodness, we’ve looked at the goodness of God, thinking about how His goodness should be reflected in our own character, the necessity of good works flowing out of sound doctrine, displaying goodness in the face of suffering, and repaying evil done to us with good instead of revenge. Let’s turn our attention now to some practical ways the Bible tells us we can be good and do good to others. I Timothy 5:10 gives us a list of good works godly widow

“Older women, teach the younger women to be good” (Titus 2:5). So far we’ve looked at the goodness of God, the goodness of internal character, the good works that should flow out of good character, and the goodness Christ calls us to display in suffering. As an extension of all of those, let’s consider an example from David’s life. My thoughts were led in that direction from Psalm 122, one of the “Songs of Ascent,” which I was memorizing last month. We are told specifically t

Older women are to be teachers of good things, and one of the things they are to teach younger women is to be good . In the third blog on goodness, I shared how Paul clearly teaches in the book of Titus that goodness and good works flow out of sound doctrine. The grace of God found in the Gospel teaches us to be good from the inside out. It cleanses us from evil and fills us with the goodness of God in both character and action. Throughout the book of I Peter, Peter reiterat

When the Bible speaks of goodness, it is often in relation to good works. I will never forget the time when I was studying the book of Titus, which is where older women are instructed to teach younger women to be good. I started the study because the book had seemed to me to be such a hodgepodge of random topics. I couldn’t see how the book all tied together. I spent over two weeks reading through the book everyday over and over, praying that God would help me understand it a