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HEADING HOME (10 OF 10)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:1-5
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Heading Home (10 of 10)
Series: The Aged Apostles Swan Song
Donald Cantrell
2 Timothy 4: 1 - 5


I - The Passing Minister (6 - 8)

II - The Pressing Message (9 - 13, 21a)

III - The People Mentioned (14 - 22)

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Theme: ''One final farewell before heading home''

Don't Run Out of Gas

May 29, 2011 it looked like it was destiny, the day Dale Earnhardt Jr. was rounding the last lap of the Charlotte Motor Speedway. You could just imagine the script that was being set; it was Memorial Day, he was being sponsored by the National Guard, and He was going to finally win for the first time in 105 races! Fans were hysterical stomping and cheering louder and louder. The moment promised much celebration for patriotism as Dale Earnhardt Jr. came around the backstretch of the Coca-Cola 600. Then suddenly it was over. The gas tank of his Chevrolet ran dry and Kevin Harvick sped right around him and stole the victory. The race was lost because Dale Earnhardt Jr. ran out of gas on the last lap of his race.

Greatness

Author Irving Stone has spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing novelized biographies of such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found a thread that runs through the lives of all these exceptional people. He said, ''I write about people who sometime in their life...have a vision or dream of something that should be accomplished...and they go to work.

''They are beaten over the head, knocked down, vilified and for years they get nowhere. But every time they're knocked down they stand up. You cannot destroy these people. And at the end of their lives they've accomplished some modest part of what they set out to do.''

Don't Stumble to the Finish

Chuck Swindoll (Moses [Thomas Nelson], pp. 305-311) argues that Moses had a lifelong anger problem that led him to this tragic failure at the end of his life. He ...

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