Lectionary: Series C (23)
  1. Paul wants Timothy to share his faith and to deliver it. Paul wants you to share his faith and to deliver it, too.
  2. Preach the Word. Preach and teach purely. Care for people, but be no “respecter of persons,” bowing to their appetites, bending to their whims.
  3. Thanks be to God that when we are faithless, Jesus is faithful, even to death, even to resurrection. His own. And yours.
  4. This is theology of the cross. It is a treasure in jars of clay, surpassing power, and faith in folks like Timothy and Paul and in little old ladies like Eunice and Lois.
  5. The only God to invest in is Jesus Christ who bids us follow.
  6. God in Christ shows us how to lift up holy hands.
  7. The sinner who soberly faces her sin has no place to run but to a savior, and the savior to run to is at the cross. The cross is where sin goes to die.
  8. Matthew’s gospel speaks the truth in love, and the truth it speaks is the dead and living Lord Jesus exclusively, and all nations, Jews and Gentiles, inclusively.
  9. Christ’s hands and feet, Christ’s very heart, are, indeed, the hands, feet, and heart of His servants, His slaves, those He has made free by dying as slave for them.
  10. Dying with Christ. That, in the end, is the only good way to die, the only way to die well. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So, imitate that.
  11. Sinai is law. Zion is gospel. Which one will save your hearer? Which one is the author’s audience being directed to? Which one are you directing your hearers to?
  12. A life of faith is lived by “fixing our eyes on” the object of faith, even Jesus, the one dead and raised.
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