Finishing Well
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The Christian life isn't about starting strong—it's about staying faithful to the end. In 2 Timothy 4:7, Paul reflected on his life with confident clarity: "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." Finishing well means staying in the fight, running with endurance, and holding tightly to our faith no matter the cost. It’s not perfection that matters, but perseverance. In this message, Pastor Nelson Walker encourages us to live with eternity in mind, so we can one day say, “I finished well.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Nelson. I'm one of the pastors here. |
| 0:18.0 | My area is the School of Ministry. So tonight, since I've run the school of ministry, |
| 0:26.5 | I decided to be a professor from a podium rather than a pastor from the pulpit, which means |
| 0:33.1 | we're going to move real fast. But the beauty of it is all the slides we are about to see, |
| 0:40.3 | just like all the teachings here, |
| 0:41.7 | they'll be at the Calvary website and you can go back. |
| 0:45.4 | I want to talk about finishing well. |
| 0:49.8 | Chariots of Fire was a movie came out in 1981, |
| 0:53.0 | Paris Olympics, 1924. Eric Little would win the 400 |
| 0:56.4 | meter gold at that Olympics. He and his sister, Jenny, were born to parents who were missionaries |
| 1:05.9 | in China. Eric and his sister have returned to Scotland because they needed to complete their education, |
| 1:12.3 | get their money together and go back. |
| 1:14.8 | Well, while he was there teaching in college, he's finished his college and he's teaching. |
| 1:18.6 | He's also playing rugby and running in track meets. |
| 1:21.4 | And it became apparent that he was world-class speed. |
| 1:25.0 | So he's been recruited to be part of the Olympic team, and he's training and |
| 1:30.7 | running in different meets. And it brings us to a scene where Eric and his sister, Jenny, are |
| 1:36.7 | standing out in the cold Scottish air, the coats and everything. And Jenny is like, I fret for you. |
| 1:42.9 | I fret for you. I worry about you, Eric. God made us for a purpose. And Jenny is like, I fret for you. I fret for you. I worry about you, Eric. |
| 1:45.5 | God made us for a purpose. |
| 1:48.2 | And now you're so distracted. |
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