EP 33: Running with Endurance

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The Bible uses a lot of running analogies, and the half-marathon I completed over the weekend really helped drive them home.

Show Notes VERSES CITED:

- Corinthians 9:24-27 - “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one....”

- Matthew 20:16 - “The first shall be last and the last shall be first.”

- Hebrews 12:1-2 - “...let us run with endurance the race that is set before us....”

- Hebrews 10:23-25 - “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering...”

- Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 - “Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor...."

- 1Timothy 6:12 - “...Fight the good fight of the faith....”

- Galatians 5:22-23 - “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness...”

- Galatians 5:25 - “If we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the spirit.”

- Galatians 5:25 - “...reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal....”

- Matthew 25:21 - “Well done, my good and faithful servant… enter into the joy of thy master.”

- 2Timothy 4:7-8 - “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith....”

Related Links:

- Cowtown Half Marathon Photos - a few of the shots I shared on Instagram

- "May All Who Come Behind Us Find Us Faithful" - touching song by Steve Green

- "Do the Next Thing" - poem written by Mrs. George A. Paull and quoted in a book by Eleanor Amerman Sutphen called Ye Nexte Thynge

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