PRODDED BY PURPOSE (1 OF 7)
Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:1-11
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Title: "Prodded By Purpose"
Theme: "We live according to our faith and trust in the gospel"
Text: "First Timothy 1: 1 - 11"
Sermon 1
First Timothy Series "Sustainable Standards for Today's Church"
I - The Insightful Introduction (1 - 2)
II - The Intimidating Isolation (3)
III - The Instrumental Instructions (4)
IV - The Implicating Insubordination (5 - 7)
V - The Impactful Illustration (8 - 11)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
Endurance
There was an epic journey undertaken in the early part of this century.
It's a tale of great deeds attempted, of great disappointments and failures, and also of great achievements. And it's a tale of a group of ordinary men who were pushed beyond the limits of human endurance, but who somehow survived and triumphed.
On October 26th, 1914, the British explorer Ernest Shackleton set sail from Argentina with a crew of twenty-seven men, on what was to be the first expedition ever to cross the Antarctic on foot. The North Pole had been reached in 1909, and a Norwegian, Roald Amundsen had achieved the Southernmost point of the globe in 1911.
This, then, was the last great polar adventure. Once their ship reached the Antarctic, Shackleton planned to travel by dogsled from East to West across the frozen continent, a distance of almost two thousand miles.
There, they would be met by a second ship and returned home to England, where they could look forward to fame and wealth as heroic adventurers.
Their dreams of glory were not unrealistic, assuming that they succeeded; in fact, in order to finance the expedition, Shackleton had already been successful in selling a book that he was to write on his return, and had also contracted for a worldwide series of lectures.
But the name of their ship, the Endurance, proved to be more prophetic than they knew. Because Ernest Shackleton and his men would not return home for seventeen months, and under very different ci ...
Theme: "We live according to our faith and trust in the gospel"
Text: "First Timothy 1: 1 - 11"
Sermon 1
First Timothy Series "Sustainable Standards for Today's Church"
I - The Insightful Introduction (1 - 2)
II - The Intimidating Isolation (3)
III - The Instrumental Instructions (4)
IV - The Implicating Insubordination (5 - 7)
V - The Impactful Illustration (8 - 11)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
Endurance
There was an epic journey undertaken in the early part of this century.
It's a tale of great deeds attempted, of great disappointments and failures, and also of great achievements. And it's a tale of a group of ordinary men who were pushed beyond the limits of human endurance, but who somehow survived and triumphed.
On October 26th, 1914, the British explorer Ernest Shackleton set sail from Argentina with a crew of twenty-seven men, on what was to be the first expedition ever to cross the Antarctic on foot. The North Pole had been reached in 1909, and a Norwegian, Roald Amundsen had achieved the Southernmost point of the globe in 1911.
This, then, was the last great polar adventure. Once their ship reached the Antarctic, Shackleton planned to travel by dogsled from East to West across the frozen continent, a distance of almost two thousand miles.
There, they would be met by a second ship and returned home to England, where they could look forward to fame and wealth as heroic adventurers.
Their dreams of glory were not unrealistic, assuming that they succeeded; in fact, in order to finance the expedition, Shackleton had already been successful in selling a book that he was to write on his return, and had also contracted for a worldwide series of lectures.
But the name of their ship, the Endurance, proved to be more prophetic than they knew. Because Ernest Shackleton and his men would not return home for seventeen months, and under very different ci ...
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