Quote
Augustine opens the Confessions with a sentence that still names the human condition: “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and…
Rest · Identity · Hope
Augustine · Psalm 42
Story
The race he would not run
Eric Liddell, 1902–1945
Eric Liddell, the Scottish sprinter later portrayed in Chariots of Fire, refused to run his best event, the 100 meters, at the 1924 Paris Olympics because the heat fell on a Sunday. He entered the 400 instead — not his race — and won gold. The film made him famous. The quieter sequel is that he left celebrity for missionary work in China and died in a Japanese internment camp in 1945. Conviction, for Liddell, was not a branding exercise. It cost him a race, a career, and finally a country.
How you’d preach it
Use when obedience looks like losing in public. Distinguish conviction from stubbornness: Liddell was not performing purity. He was keeping a day he believed belonged to God, then running the race that remained with joy.
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Liddell · Daniel 1 · Hebrews 12
Daniel 1; Hebrews 12:1–2