Weekly Message

If you were going to run a marathon what would you do to get ready? Obviously you would need to start training. You would need change the way you eat, and start spending your free time running and getting into shape. You would do everything you could to prepare yourself to endure all 26.2 grueling miles of the race.  You would do whatever it took so that when you hit mile 21, you wouldn’t grow weary and give up, but keep going.  The Bible says the Christian life is a marathon. But it’s not an athletic marathon, its a marathon of faith. And if we are going to persevere, we need to train to run the race of faith so that we won’t give up no matter what comes our way.

This Sunday as the London Marathon takes place  let us renew our commitment to our long race, particular to our own circumstances, confident that we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses who have run the race before us and passed on the baton and by Jesus, who is the pioneer and perfecter of our faith – the ultimate, ultra marathoner.
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