This message focuses on Hebrews 12:1-2 in the context of all that precedes it in the book of Hebrews, including especially the great cloud of witnesses who have finished their race.
The witnesses of Hebrews 11 were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
There is only one hero in history, the Lord Jesus Christ. But the weak and sinful people mentioned in Hebrews 11 did heroic things by means of faith in God's promises.
As we run our race, we do not look at those in the "grandstands" who have gone before us. We look straight ahead to the Author and Finisher of our faith, who has finished his course and awaits us at the finish line.
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...