If the Christian life is like a race, how do we keep running? How do we finish strong, especially when so many forces drag us down and knock us off course? In this week's sermon, David Allen answers those questions with one word—endurance. Endurance keeps us going with Christ from start to finish. But Allen doesn't just bark at us to run faster and farther;instead, with a pastor's heart, Allen leads us to Jesus, the One who has endured for us and who keeps running with us. It's a great example of a challenging, Gospel-centered sermon.

This week we also feature:

• Editor's Choice Illustration: John Perkins Gives Racist a Bag of Blueberries
• Article: How Teamwork Enriches a Sermon, by Dave Stone
• Video Illustration: I Gotta Be Honest

In Christ Alone,

Matt Woodley
Managing Editor, PreachingToday.com
mwoodley@christianitytoday.com

P.S. We offer sermon manuscripts at PreachingToday.com so you can feed your own soul, read models of good preaching, and inspire your own creative thinking. In that regard, I encourage you to check out the six sermons from the preaching ministry of John Stott.

Matt Woodley is the pastor of compassion ministries at Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton, Illinois.