Sermons on Convictiion

Caught in the Crucible Note:  This sermon was preached at First Free in Wichita in 2019. Introduction:  I’ve entitled my sermon, Caught in the Crucible.  When a craftsman wants to make a piece of gold jewelry from a mold, he first melts a bar of gold and burns all the impurities out of it.  To do this he uses a crucible, which is a vessel for melting substances that require a high degree of heat.  The term crucible has symbolically come to refer to a severe…