Run Without Carrying Every Weight: The Witness Our Neighbors Can See

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A single Sunday from Hebrews 12:1-13 for a church that can post a flyer for the city and still wear extra cargo on the sidewalk. The letter, after the witnesses of chapter 11, commands a weary people to lay aside every weight and the sin that entangles, run with perseverance the race set before them, and look to Jesus, who endured the cross and sat down. Proverbs 3:11-12, quoted in the letter, reasons with sons: do not despise the Lord's discipline or faint under his correction. Isaiah 35:3 supplies the image Hebrews uses for hanging hands and feeble knees. Endurance here is visible. Neighbors can see the pack, the look, and whether hanging hands get lifted or photographed. Manuscript, outline, and midweek discussion.