Washed in the Word

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“Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.”  “God gives the birds their food, but He doesn't throw it into their nests.”  Thomas Jefferson used to say: “I'm a great believer in luck, & I find the harder I work the more I have of it” Vince Lombardi used to say: “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.”  Those are all statements regarding our work ethic.  The Bible makes similar statements.  In fact, there are at least 44 verses in the book Proverbs that pertain to our work ethic.  It is one of the mega-themes of Proverbs & is therefore something that God wants us to understand, embrace & apply.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Money is an essential facet of our modern lives.  Mishandling money can cause a multitude of hardships.  Overemphasizing money has derailed many a saint.  What does God teach regarding "Proverbial Wisdom on Money Matters?"  In our time together today we will explore 11 practical principles on this critical subject.  So, grab our Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Proverbs are nuggets of truth poured into minuscule memorable packets.  God Himself has given us many proverbs.   Divinely inspired proverbs are more than whimsical & winsome they are wise beyond degree.  A cursory study of the book of Proverbs reveals over 200 verses which directly address the benefits of wisdom.   If God’s wisdom is so valuable to our existence, if it is the key to a life well spent instead of a life misspent, we need to consider how to acquire God’s wisdom.  The book of Proverbs makes at least five suggestions on "How to Acquire Wisdom."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & printout the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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There are over two hundred verses in Proverbs that address the benefits of wisdom.   Today, in this our first message plodding through Proverbs, we want to zero in the first four chapters to glean a dozen of the benefits of wisdom & garner a plan to personally get more out of this immensely practical book.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & download the free sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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All across the world on Sunday mornings something happens in nearly every continent & in nearly every culture.  Preachers preach.  It is universally done, but is it biblically done?  We all have our thoughts on preaching but what are God’s thoughts? Today we are going to do something very meta.  We are going to have a sermon on sermons.  Most of us have probably never heard a sermon about sermons.  Yet, as we have traversed 2 Timothy Scripture has a lot to say on the subject.  Let's peer into Scripture to learn the difference between conventional wisdom vs. biblical wisdom in regards to preaching.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & download the free sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Years ago, I came across a piece of wisdom written by a pastor who had a couple of bestselling books & a thriving mega-church, yet at the very same time his wife was locked in a life or death battle with cancer.  Eventually the ministries of the church reached a global profile yet in the midst of all that success this pastor’s eldest son took his own life.  This pastor who had seen many mountains climbed & yet also lingered in the valley of the shadow of death wrote this.  “I used to think that life was hills & valleys – you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back & forth. I don’t believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills & valleys, I believe that it’s more like two rails on a railroad track, at all times you have something good & something bad in your life. No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on & no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.”  I think this pastor is quite correct.  We live our life on the tracks.  I have watched families go through the anguish of losing a patriarch & then usher in a beautiful grandchild. I have watched people take off spiritually but struggle vocationally or much more sadly do exactly the reverse.  If you follow gospel workers in Scripture you shall see that there is nothing new under the sun.  Today we are in 2 Timothy 4:9-22.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & download the free sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Everyone who goes to church has a pastor.  Most of us have opinions of what a pastor ought to do, but what is God’s opinion?  Biblically speaking what is the pastor’s central calling?  Perhaps the clearest Scriptural answer to that critical question is found in our text today in 2 Timothy 4:1-8. Grab your Bible, a pen, & printout the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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The wisest man who ever lived was King Solomon.  In Ecclesiastes 4:12 he wrote that “a cord of three strands is not easily broken.”  A three-strand rope is strong because when twisted together they increase the diameter of the cord & take stress off the outer fibers.  This is the principal behind the cables that hold up our modern suspension bridges.  This is how over two billion vehicles have crossed the Golden Gate Bridge since its opening in 1937 despite loaded down lorries, wind, waves & several earthquakes.  The good news from our passage is that despite the rough seas of these last days, God has thrown us a lifeline of three strands in order to stand.   Grab your Bible, a pen, & download the sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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In 1 Chronicles 12:32 the Bible says the “men of Issachar… understood their times & knew what Israel should do.”  The church today needs people like the sons of Issachar.   We need to understand our times so that we know what we should do.  One of the keys to success in an endeavor is having a clear eyed understanding of your situation.  In 2 Timothy 2 God encourages us to be like a hardworking farmer & a good soldier for Christ. A farmer must know the condition of his soil.    Just as a farmer must know his context so must a soldier.  In the military they have a term for knowing your context, it is called situational awareness.  It's not just farmers & soldiers who need a healthy dose of situational awareness.  You & I need to understand the milieu of our moment.  We need situational awareness when it comes to the wiles of the world outside the church & the wolves within.  This is exactly what Paul calls us to do in our text today.  2 Timothy 3:1-9 spends equal time explaining both contexts.  How it will be in the world in these last days & what wolves await us in the church.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & download the sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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One of my favorite Far Side’s is the one with the kid pushing with all his might against the pull side of door at the “Midvale School for the Gifted.”  I once saw a sign on a shop that said “Push, if that doesn’t work, pull, if that doesn’t work we must be closed.”  Life has a lot of push-pull moments.  Like ferrous metals alongside magnets we seem pulled into some things & pushed away by others.  Friends, the God of nature is the God of Scripture.  In 2 Timothy 2:14-26 we see a series of push-pull moments.  Two things we must avoid & two things we must pursue.   Grab your Bible, a pen, & download the sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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