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I Timothy 1: 1-11
July 26, 2009
Exordium: This letter of First Timothy is loaded with truths that are not found in just this way in any other part of the Bible.
It is a letter from an older man to his young student protégé, but it is written for others to hear and perhaps primarily to them. That is where we come in. We are eavesdropping on a conversation which we are intended to over hear, written to a minister but designed for his congregation.
II CORINTHIANS 4:10-12
JUNE 28, 2009
EXORDIUM: There is something we all have in common, but we seldom talk about it – the Christian life and how to live it. That may be part of the reason that we stumble sometimes, or make little progress or alienate others along the way.
Perhaps we haven’t really learned how to walk, in the way Paul meant in Ephesians when he said, “walk worthy of the calling with which you have been called.”
