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11.26.15 — Crisis Contentment | Faro Thanksgiving Service
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The reason for this sermon is to encourage you to move away from our selfish desires to be more and have more, a sin that so easily entangles us, and to join me in moving into a season of freedom and generosity where true contentment is found.
To learn about this freedom and generosity we will study the counsel of Paul to his protégé Timothy in 1 Timothy 6:6-11. This is a passage where Paul encourages Timothy to live differently to the false teachers of the time who found their identity in riches, popularity, and fame; false teachers who used their “godliness” for profit and status. Timothy was to be different….
Allow me to speak to you about five steps toward contentment and freedom from dissatisfaction, disappointment, discontentedness, and ungratefulness.
Five steps toward contentment and freedom…
First, Redefine wealth (6)
Second, Keep an eternal perspective (7)
Third, Rejoice in the simple things of life (8)
Fourth, Eradicate Covetousness (9-10)
Fifth, Pursue righteousness (11)
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Steve Pinto
Faro Church
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