The Itching Ear Epidemic: Comforting Swabs vs. Healing Scalpels
Give me the courage to endure sound teaching, to accept Your correction, and to love Your Word more than my own comfort.
Scripture Reading
“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions...”
— 2 Timothy 4:3 (ESV)
The Insight
In the original Greek, the phrase for “itching ears” (knēthomenoi) describes a specific sensation: an irritation that…
