The Life That Really Is Life
1 Timothy 6:6-19 (CEB) · Passing the Flame
“Before we ever opened a hand, God’s hand was already open.”
This sermon launches Passing the Flame, four weeks in Paul’s letters to a young pastor named Timothy. It begins where the whole series begins: with the question of what is actually worth holding onto. Preached July 19, 2026, on 1 Timothy 6:6-19, it sits with the quiet comparison game most of us play without deciding to, and with Paul’s surprising claim that contentment, not accumulation, is where real gain begins.
In the manuscript below:
Why a Kansas grain cart at harvest turns out to be a picture of how to hold what we have been given.
What John Wesley’s three plain rules about money reorder, and why it is the third one that changes everything.
Where the love of money actually lives, and why it is not about the size of the account.
The one concrete step this week that turns contentment into generosity.
