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The first Olympic Games began in Olympia, Greece, in 776 B.C. It began with a 600-feet foot race which, according to literary traditions, was the only event for 13 centuries. Some sources say it might have started even earlier. This dating places the Olympic Games several hundred years before the ...

The Race Set Before Us In the book of Hebrews, the apostle Paul encourages believers to run the race of faith with endurance: “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily ...

1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. There’s a battle raging between my mind and body. It’s bitterly cold in the southern hemisphere and yet the need ...

We are all running this race. Well, some are running. Others seem to be on a leisure cruise. Are we running to the battle to gain an “incorruptible” crown or are we satisfied with a “corruptible” one? Who are the righteous? They are the ones running to receive the prize. ...