COURAGE

What is courage?  How do we define courage today?  While thinking and praying about this topic I seriously considered putting a picture of John Wayne opposed to writing.  I mean what else needs to be said.  I could place a picture of John Wayne and simply say Amen.  There would be no need to read; you would know what I was trying to say.

But in all honesty, what is courage?  We hear it all the time in scripture.  We see it everyday in the movies.  The men and women serving in the armed forces face it in battle.  I spent the past few years at Gordon Conwell in their Ethics department studying the four cardinal virtues.  The four virtues are Prudence, Justice, Courage, and Temperance.  These four virtues are interconnected; we cannot fully mature in one of the virtues without maturing in the others.

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