Sound Teaching for Timid Tongues and Itchy Ears
Click here to listen to this sermon. An mp3 file is available upon request. The text for today is our Epistle lesson, 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ ! Convictions—those things that we have learned and firmly believe in—are important and formative. Some are very helpful because they’re based in truth. But sometimes we must give up long cherished convictions because we find out that the things that we were convinced are facts are not actually true. For instance: There was a time in my life when I was convinced that you could pop popcorn in water. I argued forcefully with my first grade teacher, Miss Winter when she tried to set me straight. It was about that same time, I believed that you put salt and pepper on your food to cool it off. On the theological side, I also remember a few years later believing the six days of creation were not literal twenty-four hour days, but longer...