Suffering is good?!

Posted by on August 28, 2010 in Faith, Life, Philosophy | 1 comment


Yet another great post by Jerry:

Let’s face it no one really likes pain. In fact, most of us go out of our way to avoid pain.

However, if we are going to accomplish our goals and ”complete the race marked out for us,” we must endure some pain along the way. If we seek to “Fix our eyes on Jesus,” as suggested in Hebrews 12:1-3, then we must look at adversity (pain) the way scriptures looks at it.

Jerry is training for the Ironman (which is insane) although he is also a pastor at my church (he’s in charge of the youth).

While I do like people who encourage (what my senior Pastor is awesome at), I love the blunt talkers, especially those who encourage you to survive the trials, regardless of how bloody it might be.

As an aside, I personally love Jerry blunt sermons (i.e. improve slacker or perish), although I think I’m one of the few who do. :-)

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  • http://www.journeytoanironman.net Jerry Standridge

    Thanks Darnell, you do know not all my sermons are drop kicks to the face, right? :)

    Although, I do have to admit the last couple I have preached in the main service have been.

    Thanks for the shout out!

    Update 8/28 (Darnell): Corrected domain link.