Sermon Illustrations about Perseverance
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Discipline Refines Talent
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
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The Road to Excellence
Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and ...
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Tiny Sacrifices
Fred Craddock, in an address to ministers, caught the practical implications of consecration. "To give my life for Christ appears glorious," ...
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Heartbreak Hill
There is another reason that we don't persevere. Sometimes we face "Heartbreak Hill." In the Boston Marathon, there is a legendary obstacle ...
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The Failure of Immediate Victory
There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.
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Running a Ninety-Five-Yard Dash
A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five-yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the ...
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Falling Down and Getting Up Again
I heard once of an Italian peasant woman who happened to bump into a monk who lived in a monastery high on a hill above her village. Since she bumped ...
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Win or Lose, He Didn't Stay Down
The movie Chariots of Fire was the true story of Eric Liddell, a man who ran for Scotland, then went on to become a missionary. You may recall that he ...
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Staying Above the Water
The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.
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