WORKMAN, VESSELS, AND SERVANTS (5 OF 10)
Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:14, 2 Timothy 2:16-26
Workman, Vessels, and Servants (5 of 10)
Series: The Aged Apostles Swan Song
Donald Cantrell
2 Timothy 2: 14 - 26
I - The Truthful Charge (14 - 15)
II - The Troubling Cankers (16 - 17)
III - The Truthless Corruption (18)
IV - The Timely Challenge (19 - 22)
V - The Triumphant Captives (23 - 26)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''Timothy is challenged in three areas in these verses''
THE AMBUSH OF JOHN WESLEY POWELL (Steve Farrar)
John Wesley Powell lost his arm in the Civil War. This, however, did not stop him from becoming a hero.
''Back in 1869 conventional wisdom said that passage through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River was impossible. It couldn't be done. The back country surrounding the Grand Canyon oozed with legends of doomed expeditions. No one had ever dared that stretch of river and come out alive. Out of all expeditions that had given it their best shot, there was not one survivor.
One army lieutenant who has explored the Colorado just on the southern side of the Grand Canyon believed that powerful river so treacherous that 'the Colorado, along the greater part of its lonely and majestic way, shall be forever unvisited and undisturbed.' (If you saw the River Wild, the rapids shown in the movie were a class nine rapids, which looked like a sprinkler next to these rapids).
But the one-armed explorer thought he could pull it off.
On May 24, 1869, Powell and a party of nine stepped into their four small boats to attempt the thousand-mile journey. Along the way, their party encountered numerous ambushes.
They were ambushed by legion killer rapids, ambushed by waterfalls, and they were ambushed by boulders the size of cabins.
They were ambushed by the loss of boats, critical foodstuffs, and instruments.
Yet one hundred days later, Powell and five men emerged from two boats. All hope for their survival had been given up weeks before. They were suffering from ex ...
Series: The Aged Apostles Swan Song
Donald Cantrell
2 Timothy 2: 14 - 26
I - The Truthful Charge (14 - 15)
II - The Troubling Cankers (16 - 17)
III - The Truthless Corruption (18)
IV - The Timely Challenge (19 - 22)
V - The Triumphant Captives (23 - 26)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: ''Timothy is challenged in three areas in these verses''
THE AMBUSH OF JOHN WESLEY POWELL (Steve Farrar)
John Wesley Powell lost his arm in the Civil War. This, however, did not stop him from becoming a hero.
''Back in 1869 conventional wisdom said that passage through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River was impossible. It couldn't be done. The back country surrounding the Grand Canyon oozed with legends of doomed expeditions. No one had ever dared that stretch of river and come out alive. Out of all expeditions that had given it their best shot, there was not one survivor.
One army lieutenant who has explored the Colorado just on the southern side of the Grand Canyon believed that powerful river so treacherous that 'the Colorado, along the greater part of its lonely and majestic way, shall be forever unvisited and undisturbed.' (If you saw the River Wild, the rapids shown in the movie were a class nine rapids, which looked like a sprinkler next to these rapids).
But the one-armed explorer thought he could pull it off.
On May 24, 1869, Powell and a party of nine stepped into their four small boats to attempt the thousand-mile journey. Along the way, their party encountered numerous ambushes.
They were ambushed by legion killer rapids, ambushed by waterfalls, and they were ambushed by boulders the size of cabins.
They were ambushed by the loss of boats, critical foodstuffs, and instruments.
Yet one hundred days later, Powell and five men emerged from two boats. All hope for their survival had been given up weeks before. They were suffering from ex ...
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