Sip #1 – Read Chapter 2 of Titus in the NIV translation
Sip #2 – Read my big takeaway from the day
Sip #3 – Add comments/thoughts/questions in the Comments Box (bottom of page). NOT REQUIRED
Sip #4 – Re-read any parts of Chapter 2 that impacted you
Sip #5 – Come back tomorrow for Chapter 3 of Titus in the NIV translation; it’s the big close-out of Round 2!

Hello, all! It’s the first Sunday in a five-Sunday month. Today also marks the 3-month mark. Three months from today my two oldest daughters and I will be running the Fargo Marathon. North Dakota will be state #18 for me, and, with Georgia and Louisiana on the docket for later in the year, I will hit 20 states! Later today, a 9-mile training run is in store, as my 19-week training schedule rolls on.

Time to tackle Titus, Chapter 2! Let’s look deeper at verses 6-7… 

“Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything, set them an example by doing what is good.”

In 1980, singer Peter Gabriel recorded the song, “No Self Control.” It was not a big hit on the Billboard Charts, and wasn’t a very deep song lyrically, but the first verse does challenge me a little bit…

“I gotta get some food, I’m so hungry all the time
I don’t know how to stop, I don’t know how to stop
I gotta get some sleep, I’m so nervous in the night
But I don’t know how to stop, I don’t know how to stop”

It’s only two of the vast number of possible stumbling blocks we can encounter on No Self Control Blvd… over-eating and over-thinking. When you consider the…