The Teaching about the Truth

True Teaching about the Truth
1Timothy 1.1-7

I remember with considerable embarrassment one of the very first sermons I ever preached.

In my mind’s eye I could see it so well. I knew – or thought I knew – what I wanted to say. But when I sat down to put it together, to write it out and see how it would go, it all somehow ran away from me. I remember going to one of the biblical passages that was to be read in the service and discovering to my horror that, on closer inspection, it was a lot more complicated than I had thought when I had first glanced at it. I remember trying to work in all sorts of points that I’d only just come across, and had not really thought through. And I remember my mind and imagination jumping to and fro between the mental image I had of what a great preacher ought to sound like, the texts in front of me on the desk, and the ideas, jottings and illustrations in my notebook..