The Courage to Keep Going

Saddleback Church Weekend Messages

Saddleback Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 712 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

So often, when we begin the pursuit of a dream, we start out strong — but a good beginning doesn’t guarantee a strong finish. This week, Pastor Andy Wood wraps up the Uncommon Courage series by talking about the courage to keep going and how to finish well.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. So good to see you this weekend at Saddleback. Welcome those of you who are joining us online and those of you at all of our campuses.
0:09.5	It's a great day to be in church. And I'm so grateful today that we get to celebrate the diversity of Saddleback Church, that we are in all-nation congregation.
0:20.4	And so in our service at Lake Forest today,
0:22.7	we got to watch the Espaniel team lead us in worship. And my heart was so stirred today,
0:28.4	just thinking about the fact that there are so many people all over the world who are
0:33.2	worshiping Jesus from their native tongue, from the language that God has given them in their
0:39.1	hearts, and we get to be a part of a global church. So happy Hispanic Heritage Month. We celebrate
0:45.5	those of you at our Espaniel campus. And those of you at our campus in South America,
0:51.3	at our Buenos Aires campus, we are so grateful for you. Now, today we are in the last
0:57.8	week of a series called Uncommon Courage, and we've had a great four weeks talking about the subject
1:03.6	of courage, that oftentimes the missing ingredient between where we are and where God wants
1:09.3	us to be is courage. That so often when we
1:12.6	come to a place where we're stuck or we find ourselves circling, the thing we need is courage to
1:18.0	move forward. So we've looked at different aspects of courage. My favorite message of the whole
1:23.2	series so far was last week when my wife Stacey spoke. She did an amazing job and thankful for her.
1:30.9	Today I want to finish our series with a message about the courage to keep going, the courage
1:37.1	to continue when you want to stop. And there's a time in our life where we get a sense of courage.
1:43.8	Perhaps you got courage to start parenting or you got courage to get married or you had courage
1:49.0	to begin a ministry, but there comes a point for all of us where we need a fresh dose of courage.
1:56.0	I was reminded recently of a time that I did this race, so it was called a MRF.
2:00.0	And those of you who are in military, you'll I did this race. So it was called a MRF. And those of you who are in
2:02.0	military, you'll know of this race. It was designed after a guy who was in Afghanistan, and he would
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