Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

And the title of today's post is Tenacity.

In 1977, I heard my first sermon by John Garlock, the greatest communicator I've had the privilege of listening to.

John, now in heaven, was one of my professors at Christ for the Nations Institute.

The message was on the subject of tenacity and had three points, which I remember to this day,

46 years later. John was that good.

Today's post is taken from that message.

Tenacity, of course, is the quality of persevering,

refusing to quit, and holding fast, like a bulldog on a bone.

I found the following synonyms in my good old phone dictionary,

courage, determination, grit, heart, resoluteness, and resolve.

On the less formal slang side of the synonym list, I found gutsyness, intestinal

fortitude, st-tuitiveness, and true grit.

Pick your word or phrase, but tenacity is the determination to hang in there when the

hanging ain't easy.

Brother Garlock, as we called him in the day,

would probably cringe at my choice of words.

This great word smith illustrated tenacity

and the lack thereof with the following poem.

Two frogs fell into a can of cream, or so it has been told.

The sides of the can were shiny and steep.

The cream was deep and cold.

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