Profiles in Courage

Wednesdays6:30, Room 100

Deuteronomy 31:7

• Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it.

2Chronicles 19:11• "And take notice: Amariah the chief

priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters; also the Levites will be officials before you. Behave courageously, and the LORD will be with the good."

COURAGE IN FACING PHYSICAL DANGER

COURAGE FOR QUESTIONABLE MOTIVES

PAMPLONA, SPAIN

EVEL KNIEVEL

Bungee Jumping on Pentecost

Island

COURAGE FOR AN EARTHLY CAUSE

The Runner at the Battle of Marathon, Phidippides

Present Day runner

HENRY V SPEECH: St. Crispin’s Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAgAM

Firefighters in Brussels, 2000

COURAGE OF FAITH

Martyrdom of Polycarp

William Tyndale: Burned at the Stake

Salem Witch Trials

Hebrews 11:32-38• 32 And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of

Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: 33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35 Women received their dead raised to life again.

• Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. 36 Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented — 38 of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

MICHAELANGELO’S DAVID

SHADRACH, MESHACH, ABEDNEGO, Daniel 3

DANIEL PRAYING WITH ENEMIES WATCHING AND IN LION’S DEN,

Daniel 6

Carpaccio, High Renaissance,

Sermon of Stephen at Jerusalem, Louvre