{"id":1296,"date":"2025-10-05T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2025-10-05T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T13:40:14","slug":"faith-and-servanthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/10\/05\/faith-and-servanthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith and Servanthood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Julie Taylor on the 5\/10\/25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/051025_202510\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/051025_202510\/051025.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 3:46<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">2 Timothy 1 verses 3-14\n<br><br>\nThanksgiving<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>3<\/b><\/font> I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>4<\/b><\/font> Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>5<\/b><\/font> I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.\n<br><br><br>\n\n<font color=\"red\">Appeal for Loyalty to Paul and the Gospel<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>6<\/b><\/font> For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>7<\/b><\/font> For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>8<\/b><\/font> So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>9<\/b><\/font> He has saved us and called us to a holy life\u2014not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>10<\/b><\/font> but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>11<\/b><\/font> And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>12<\/b><\/font> That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>13<\/b><\/font> What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>14<\/b><\/font> Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you\u2014guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.\n<br><br><br>\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Luke 17 verses 5-10<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>5<\/b><\/font>\u00a0The apostles\u00a0said to the Lord,\u00a0\u201cIncrease our faith!\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>6<\/b><\/font>\u00a0He replied,\u00a0\u201cIf you have faith as small as a mustard seed,\u00a0you can say to this mulberry tree, \u2018Be uprooted and planted in the sea,\u2019 and it will obey you.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>7<\/b><\/font>\u00a0\u201cSuppose one of you has a servant ploughing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, \u2018Come along now and sit down to eat\u2019?\u00a0\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>8<\/b><\/font>\u00a0Won\u2019t he rather say, \u2018Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me\u00a0while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink\u2019?\u00a0\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>9<\/b><\/font>\u00a0Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do?\u00a0\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>10<\/b><\/font>\u00a0So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, \u2018We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.\u2019\u201d\n<br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Julie Taylor on the 5\/10\/25 Download Mp3\u00a0HERE! 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