A Warning to Persevere

Ethiopia’s Abebe Bikila bought new running shoes when he arrived in Rome for the 1960 Olympic Games, but he found them uncomfortable and decided to run the marathon without them. His barefoot marathon run made history. He claimed the gold with a time of 2:15:16, breaking the previous world record. When asked how he was able to run the 26.2-mile distance with no shoes, Bikila said, “I wanted the whole world to know that my country, Ethiopia, has always won with determination and heroism.”

Many critics of contemporary worship songs charge that they focus only on an emotional experience with Jesus, unlike an older generation of Christian hymns that seemed to talk about something else: the blood. But why would Christians sing about blood?

For nearly 20 years, Moody has been training students to do ministry with and through TESOL, “Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.” How is this a ministry, you might ask?