today on Summit Life with Jiddy Greer.

My foot slip. Your love was steadfast. It never moved. My faith is not in my foot because my foot's always slipping. My faith is in your steadfast love because when I go under the water, you stay on top of it. Our God is a God who will always be there to catch us, always be there to pick us back up, always be there to lift us back on top of the waves. So when you waver, put your eyes back on him.

Welcome back to Summit Life with pastor, author, and apologist J.D. Greer. I'm your host, Molly Vinovich,

and we're thankful to be jumping

into God's Word with you again today. You know, we've all had the experience of starting a new

diet or a workout routine. And in fact, many of us are waiting for the magical day called January

1st to do just that. We're super excited at the beginning, doing a ton of research, bringing it up in conversation,

posting about it all over social media. But then as it becomes a bit more routine,

it usually gets a lot harder to stay motivated and more monotonous to keep it up. Well, today,

Pastor J.D. warns us about a similar effect that can happen in our spiritual lives. We're learning how to build

perseverance as we kick off a new teaching series called Staying Faith. Pastor Jady titled this

message, Strong from Start to Finish. We all have the experience of starting things with

enthusiasm and then petering out along the way.

Is that correct?

Don't we all have that experience?

When the life of faith, we have the experience.

I'm sure you will agree of starting some things, but not finishing them also.

So what I want to talk about is staying faith, the kind of faith that not only makes the commitment,

but the kind of faith that sees it through.

You see, Jesus told a story. This is not there in the Gospel of Matthew that I'm going to show

you, but he told a story about two brothers. Their dad asked them to go work in his field.

And one of the brothers said he would, but then he didn't go. And the other brother said he

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