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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

It's important to start our Christian life well with a strong foundation.

But coming up today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie says it's even more important to finish well.

You decide how your story is going to end spiritually.

God says I said before you death and life blessings and curses, choose life that you might live.

God wants you to be a spiritual success, but if you self-destruct that's not on God, that's on you.

This is the day when the lost are found. This is the day for a new beginning.

Amazing grace, God's week has come.

But can you kill me, I just want to see you?

This is the day that's going to end.

In any marathon, the runners who jump out in front of the beginning are rarely the ones in front at the end.

In fact, if a person isn't careful how he runs, he probably won't finish first and may not finish at all.

Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie points out how even the strong can be brought to weakness.

It's a lesson on spiritual integrity and resisting those things that can derail our faithfulness to God.

Pastor Greg begins by directing a story, scripture text.

The day the day when life begins.

The book of Judges, and I'm going to talk to you about one of the most paradoxical interesting characters in the Bible.

His name was Samson, and the title of my message is the he-man with a she-weakness.

One of the things that I have found in life is it's just full of surprises.

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