{"id":6036,"date":"2016-08-16T03:48:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/building-courage-muscle\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:48:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:40","slug":"building-courage-muscle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/building-courage-muscle\/","title":{"rendered":"BUILDING\n  COURAGE MUSCLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Apathy; Church; Commitment; Complacency; Courage; Dedication; Leadership; Strength<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Deuteronomy 3:6; 2 Chronicles 32:7; 1 Corinthians 16:13; Galatians 6:9; 2 Timothy 1:8<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Courage is like a muscle. The more we exercise it, the stronger it gets. I sometimes worry that our collective courage is growing weaker from disuse. We don\u2019t demand it from our leaders, and our leaders don\u2019t demand it from us. The courage deficit is both our problem and our fault. As a result, too many leaders in the public and private sectors lack the courage necessary to honor their obligations to others and to uphold the essential values of leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014U.S. Senator John McCain, <i>Fast Company<\/i> magazine\u2019s \u201cFirst Impression\u201d newsletter (August 2, 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Apathy; Church; Commitment; Complacency; Courage; Dedication; Leadership; Strength References: Deuteronomy 3:6; 2 Chronicles 32:7; 1 Corinthians 16:13; Galatians 6:9; 2 Timothy 1:8 Courage is like a muscle. The more we exercise it, the stronger it gets. I sometimes worry that our collective courage is growing weaker from disuse. We don\u2019t demand it from our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/building-courage-muscle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BUILDING<br \/>\n  COURAGE MUSCLE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}