Guard the Fire Without Hiding It: For the Week You Did Not Choose

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A single Sunday from 2 Timothy 1:3-14 for a church that can keep the gospel true in the pulpit and quiet in the week it did not pick. Paul writes from a chain to Timothy: sincere faith, a gift to stir, no spirit of fear but power, love, and self-control, no shame of the Lord's testimony or of the prisoner, hardship endured according to God's power, a Savior who abolished death, a God able to guard what was committed to him, sound words held, the good thing guarded through the Holy Spirit. Matthew 5:14-16 names a lamp that does not belong under a basket. Romans 1:16 names a gospel Paul is not ashamed of because it is the power of God for salvation. God-given courage guards the gospel entrusted to us by sharing it; hiding the fire is not how you keep it. Manuscript, outline, and midweek discussion.