1.Laurel Wamsley, “The Father Who Helped His Son Cross the Finish Line at the Olympics Has Died,” NPR, October 4, 2022, www.npr.org/2022/10/04/1126776697/jim-redmond-derek-olympics-sprinter-father-dies.
1.This story is adapted from personal correspondence sent by a Turning Point listener.
2.Jerry Adler et al., “The Fight to Conquer Fear,” Newsweek, 103, no. 17 (April 23, 1984): 69.
3.Adler et al., “The Fight to Conquer Fear.”
4.Craig Massey, “When Fear Threatens,” Moody Monthly 71 (September 1970): 22–23, 69–70.
5.Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins (New York: Penguin Classics, 1986), 138.
6.Joe B. Brown, “Caught in the Grip of Fear,” Moody Monthly 97, no. 1 (September/October 1996): 11.
1.“Luck Rivals Worst of Sick Jokes: ‘There’s Hope,’ New Yorker Says,” Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1995, www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-19-mn-44484-story.html.
2.Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen, “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive,” www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/johnnymercer/accenttchuatethepositive.html.
3.Andy Andrews, ed., “Erma Bombeck,” Storms of Perfection Volume 2 (Nashville, TN: Lightning Crown Publishers, 1994), 51. Cited in John Maxwell’s Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2000), 24–25.
4.Leith Anderson, Leadership That Works: Hope and Direction for Church and Parachurch Leaders in Today’s Complex World (Minneapolis: Bethany Publishing House, 1999), 166–67.
5.Anderson, Leadership That Works, 166–67.
6.Fred Smith, “The Gift of Greeting,” Christianity Today 29, no. 18 (December 13, 1985): 70.
1.In Dale Carnegie’s How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (New York: Pocket Books, 1984), 3–4.
2.Daily Bread, December 11, 1999.
3.Thomas Tewell, “The Weight of the World [1995],” Preaching Today, tape no. 147.
4.Daniel R. Mitchum, “The Needless Burden of Worry,” Discipleship Journal, March 1, 1987, 44–46.
1.Mark Littleton, “Doubt Can Be Good,” HIS, March 1979, 9.
1.Quoted in Lettie Cowman, Streams in the Desert (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1965), 90.
2.Kenneth Wuest, Wuest’s Word Studies from the Greek New Testament, vol. 3 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1973), 82.
3.Paul Lee Tan, Encyclopedia of 7000 Illustrations: A Treasury of Illustrations, Anecdotes, Facts, and Quotations for Pastors, Teachers, and Christian Workers, electronic ed. (Garland, TX: Bible Communications, 1979). Published in electronic form by Logos Research Systems, 1997.
4.John Newton, Out of the Depths, revised by Dennis R. Hillman (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2003), 12.
5.Ron Mehl, Surprise Endings: Ten Good Things About Bad Things (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 1993), 60.
6.Quoted in Josiah Bull, “But Now I See”: The Life of John Newton (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust, 1998), 304.
7.Bull, “But Now I See,” 304.
1.Adapted from David L. Allen, “My All-Time Favorite Sports Sermon Illustration!,” March 13, 2019, https://drdavidlallen.com/sermons/my-all-time-favorite-sports-sermon-illustration/; see also Julietta Jameson, Cliffy: The Cliff Young Story (Melbourne, Australia: Text Publishing, 2013).
2.See Douglas J. Moo, The NIV Application Commentary: 2 Peter, Jude (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1996), 46.
3.Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), 131–32.
4.Adapted from “Byron Janis (Piano),” accessed March 27, 2019, www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Janis-Byron.htm.
5.“Byron Janis (Piano).”
6.Dena Yohe, You Are Not Alone (New York: WaterBrook, 2016), 12, 121.
7.Chris Tiegreen, The One Year Walk with God Devotional (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2004), March 6.
8.Adapted from Omee Thao, “Difficult Journey Leads to Blessed Life,” Alliance, accessed March 30, 2019, www.cmalliance.org/news/2015/04/09/difficult-journey-leads-to-blessed-life/.
9.Joni Eareckson Tada, Heaven: Your Real Home (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2018), 171.
10.Gerri Willis, “Breast Cancer Taught Me to Live Day by Day, Hour by Hour,” Good Housekeeping, October 27, 2017, www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/a46636/gerri-willis-breast-cancer/.
11.Peter Rosenberger, Hope for the Caregiver (Nashville, TN: Worthy Publishing Group, 2014), 99–100.
12.Adapted from Eun Kyung Kim, “Inspiring 3-Year-Old Twins with Down Syndrome Have Become Social Media Stars,” Today, March 27, 2019, www.today.com/parents/inspiring-3-year-old-twins-down-syndrome-have-become-social-t151064.
13.Anne Lamott, “I am going to be 61 years old in 48 hours,” Facebook, April 8, 2015, www.facebook.com/AnneLamott/posts/662177577245222.
14.Zoë Read, “Daughter of Fallen Wilmington Firefighter Receives National Scholarship,” WHYY, February 5, 2019, https://whyy.org/articles/daughter-of-fallen-wilmington-firefighter-receives-national-scholarship/.
15.Helen Wilbers, “Record-Setting Hiker Shares Lesson,” News Tribune, May 27, 2018, www.newstribune.com/news/local/story/2018/may/27/learning-on-her-feet/728085/.
16.Stephanie Gallman, “Elite Runner Crawls Across the Finish Line at Austin Marathon,” CNN, February 17, 2015, www.cnn.com/2015/02/16/us/austin-marathon-finish-line-crawl/index.html.
17.Adam Hammons, “Runners Inspired by Crawl to Finish Line,” CBS Austin, February 17, 2015, https://cbsaustin.com/sports/content/runners-inspired-by-crawl-to-finish-line.
1.Phil Helsel, “Kyrie Irving to Donate $500k to Fight Hate, Takes Responsibility for Post about Antisemitic Film,” NBC News, November 2, 2022, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kyrie-irving-oppose-forms-hatred-take-responsibility-post-antisemitic-rcna55380.
2.Quoted in Craig Brian Larson, ed., 750 Engaging Illustrations for Pastors, Teachers, and Writers (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2002), 40.
3.Julie Juola-Exline, Ann Marie Yali, and Marci Lobel, “When God Disappoints: Difficulty in Forgiving God and Its Role in Negative Emotions,” Journal of Health Psychology 4, no. 3 (1999): 365–79, https://doi.org/10.1177/135910539900400306.
4.Thomas Schlamme, dir. “Two Cathedrals,” The West Wing, season 2, episode 22, Warner Bros. Television, 2001.
5.Eva J. Alexander, “Rescuing Women,” Decision, October 1997, 4–5.
1.Gordon MacDonald, The Life God Blesses (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1994), 25.
2.MacDonald, The Life God Blesses, 25.
3.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 2, quoted in Annie Holmquist, “Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Advice for a World Plagued by Chaos and Victimhood,” Intellectual Takeout, October 25, 2018, www.intellectualtakeout.org/2018/10/aleksandr-solzhenitsyns-advice-for-a-world-plagued-by-chaos-and-victimhood/.
4.Laura A. Barter Snow, “This Thing Is from Me,” tract 120 (Grand Rapids, MI: Faith, Prayer, and Tract League), n.d.
5.MacDonald, The Life God Blesses, 42.
6.Mehl, Surprise Endings, 60.