Podcasts about Harold Abrahams

When consumers can get AI-generated designs completely customized to their needs, what does this mean for the future of brands and the customer experience? I have two guests on my show today: one is the founder of one of the world's most iconic shoe brands, and the other is the co-creator of the first AI-designed commercial shoe. Today we're going to talk about what it takes to innovate and grow a brand and how things are both similar—and different since Reebok launched its brand in 1960, and now Syntilay brings a whole new era of AI-based design to the market. To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome Joe Foster, the founder of Reebok and Ben Weiss, the CEO of Syntilay. About Joe FosterJoe founded Reebok in 1958 with his late brother Jeff, following their family heritage back to 1895. Joe's Grandfather, also Joseph W Foster, pioneered the spiked running shoe and famously made shoes for the Worlds best athletes of the early 20th century, with World records and Olympics Gold Medals.Wearing (pumps) made by J W Foster & Sons Ltd, Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell won Olympic Gold Medals in the 1928 Paris Olympics and were immortalised in the film ‘Chariots of Fire'.With Reebok they followed in his footsteps, with Olympic, Commonwealth and European medals and World record breaking performances, represented now by the range of Reebok Classics. About Ben WeissBen is building the future of sneakers, shoes designed with Artificial Intelligence that are entirely 3D printed, accompanied by an excellent team and set of advisors including the legendary Reebok Founder, Joe Foster, original Shark Tank Shark, Kevin Harrington, and others. He hosts the business podcast, LegendsNLeaders, which breaks down the steps it truly takes to become successful and have a positive impact in the world. The podcast has featured outstanding guests like Kevin O'Leary, Shark Tank Shark, Howie Mandel, Steve Madden, Miss Universe, R'Bonney Nola, and has been viewed in the millions. RESOURCES Syntilay: https://www.syntilay.com/ https://www.syntilay.com/ The Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems. Learn more here: https://www.teksystems.com/versionnextnow Catch the future of e-commerce at eTail Boston, August 11-14, 2025. Register now: https://bit.ly/etailboston and use code PARTNER20 for 20% off for retailers and brandsOnline Scrum Master Summit is happening June 17-19. This 3-day virtual event is open for registration. Visit www.osms25.com and get a 25% discount off Premium All-Access Passes with the code osms25agilebrandDon't Miss MAICON 2025, October 14-16 in Cleveland - the event bringing together the brights minds and leading voices in AI. Use Code AGILE150 for $150 off registration. Go here to register: https://bit.ly/agile150Shoe Maker by Joe Foster: https://www.jwfosterheritage.com/shop-online/p/ohi30b1x63ghyj2him04suqx1ju4z5 Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkihlstromDon't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more: https://www.theagilebrand.showCheck out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.com The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company

La particular ruta por la historia de los Juegos Olímpicos llega a París 1924, unos Juegos de película. Sí, porque fueron los Juegos de Carros de Fuego, el peliculón dirigido por Hugh Hudson, con la música inmortal de Vangelis y producido por un tal Dody Fayed. Es el mejor homenaje cinematográfico a los Juegos Olímpicos. David Botello (@DavidBotello4) y Esther Sánchez (@estesan1969), acompañados por Ainara Ariztoy y José Luis Llorente se van para allá a conocer a Eric Liddell y Harold Abrahams. Si quieres acompañarlos, ¡súbete a la Historia!

The last time Paris held the Olympic Games was 100 years ago in 1924.More than 3,000 athletes from 44 nations took part, of which only 135 were women, in 17 sports.Rachel Naylor goes through the BBC archive for interviews with two British medallists - the sprinter Harold Abrahams and the tennis player Kitty Godfree.(Photo: Harold Abrahams winning gold at the Olympics in Paris, in 1924. Credit: Jewish Chronicle / Heritage Images / Getty Images)

Dave Brisbin 3.17.24 What do humans look like when they break through their own thought-created worlds—all about survival, controlling competition—and become present to the real world around them? I remembered the movie Chariots of Fire, based on a true story set around the Paris Olympics, 1924. It contrasts two runners, a British Jew, Harold Abrahams, and a Scottish Christian, Eric Liddel. Abrahams has been embittered by the prejudice he's suffered as a Jew, and runs for revenge, driven to win and prove superiority over those who despised him. Liddel, China-born to missionary parents, has been preparing to return to the mission field even as he gained stardom in rugby. His sister, Jenny, just as driven as Abrahams in her religious zeal, is dismissive and critical of his athletics; they distract from God. Liddel tells Jenny, “I believe God made me for a purpose, for China…but he also made me fast…and when I run, I feel his pleasure. To give it up would be to hold him in contempt.” Abrahams runs for revenge. Jenny runs for duty and obligation. When Liddel runs, he feels God's pleasure. Liddel stands apart. Principled to the point he won't run his 100M race because it falls on a Sunday, he withstands withering fire from his elders including the Prince of Wales himself. Yet, when able to run the 400M instead, as the fastest runners in the world are tensely preparing to run, Liddel casually walks the lanes, sport coat over his running shorts, smiling, shaking hands, wishing each the best of luck. Liddel was only 22 years old. How'd he do that? Running was just another place where he felt God's pleasure: sheer oneness and connection. But seems he also felt God's pleasure when he greeted his fellow runners, unconcerned at that moment for the race itself, until that became the source of God's pleasure. Twenty years later, he was still feeling God's pleasure in China, working with children in the WWII internment camp where he died. Wherever he went, whatever he was doing, he felt God's pleasure, changing everything. I don't know how he felt all this at 22. But with intention and a bit more time, we can all feel it too if we wish.

Dave Brisbin 3.17.24 What do humans look like when they break through their own thought-created worlds—all about survival, controlling competition—and become present to the real world around them? I remembered the movie Chariots of Fire, based on a true story set around the Paris Olympics, 1924. It contrasts two runners, a British Jew, Harold Abrahams, and a Scottish Christian, Eric Liddel. Abrahams has been embittered by the prejudice he's suffered as a Jew, and runs for revenge, driven to win and prove superiority over those who despised him. Liddel, China-born to missionary parents, has been preparing to return to the mission field even as he gained stardom in rugby. His sister, Jenny, just as driven as Abrahams in her religious zeal, is dismissive and critical of his athletics; they distract from God. Liddel tells Jenny, “I believe God made me for a purpose, for China…but he also made me fast…and when I run, I feel his pleasure. To give it up would be to hold him in contempt.” Abrahams runs for revenge. Jenny runs for duty and obligation. When Liddel runs, he feels God's pleasure. Liddel stands apart. Principled to the point he won't run his 100M race because it falls on a Sunday, he withstands withering fire from his elders including the Prince of Wales himself. Yet, when able to run the 400M instead, as the fastest runners in the world are tensely preparing to run, Liddel casually walks the lanes, sport coat over his running shorts, smiling, shaking hands, wishing each the best of luck. Liddel was only 22 years old. How'd he do that? Running was just another place where he felt God's pleasure: sheer oneness and connection. But seems he also felt God's pleasure when he greeted his fellow runners, unconcerned at that moment for the race itself, until that became the source of God's pleasure. Twenty years later, he was still feeling God's pleasure in China, working with children in the WWII internment camp where he died. Wherever he went, whatever he was doing, he felt God's pleasure, changing everything. I don't know how he felt all this at 22. But with intention and a bit more time, we can all feel it too if we wish.

In this episode you'll get to hear Nate sing (!) the unofficial English national anthem "Jerusalem"... but there's lots more: In England 1924, the sport of "sprinting" is in tension between faith and secularism, amateurism and the pros, and the nation versus world. Chariots of Fire is a tale of two athletes making their mark in this moment, and the SASF guys discuss this classic sports film. First thing to note is that Eric Liddell is actually not fulfilling the role of the protagonist in this story. It's Harold Abrahams's character arc that resolves -- putting Liddell in the role of "side" character. Second thing to note is that Harold's conversion is what allows his character to resolve -- although Brian brings up a rabbit who views Harold as a villain for just that reason. The guys discuss the iconic music, adaptations that aren't strictly accurate, Scipio Africanus Mussabini, what an emotionally sabotaging villain Eric Liddell's sister was and how he didn't respond to her correctly, Eric's faithfulness up to his death in a Japanese internment camp, and much more. #SASF #StoriesAreSoulFood #LAMPC #LookAtMovingPicturesClub #ChariotsOfFire #EricLiddell #HaroldAbrahams #England #Blake

Every other month, when we are not in our Book Nook series, we watch (and encourage our listeners to watch) a film that captures an important conversation in our culture. We also hope to model how to get more out of your movies and see more clearly the messages Hollywood is sending us all the time! We return to our Reel Talk series with Chariots of Fire (1981), a sports film about two british runners whose beliefs and ambitions collide at the 1924 Olympic games. Harold Abrahams is a ladder climbing Jewish runner with something to prove. Eric Liddell is a christian runner drawing attention to the mission of God. The story of these two runners asks deep questions about the importance of faith in every endeavor and what it might take to catch the attention of a culture and change it for good. How does our faith make a difference in our ambitions, dreams, and achievements? What does the culture need to see from Christians when our convictions are challenged? Give it a watch and then join us for Reel Talk!

Glittering Vice #2 Envy What is envy? Rebecca DeYoung explains this vice so well. “Jealousy is envy's close cousin. Both are personal and related to love. The jealous “have” something or someone they love but might lose. The envious, by contrast, are the “have-nots”--they do not have the good their rival does, and they do not have self-love either.” Let's look at two athletes and contrast the differences. In 1924, Eric Liddell raced against Harold Abrahams in the 400 meter race in the Olympics. Eric said he felt God's pleasure whenever he ran, not when he won. (This explained why he confidently switched to a race he had not trained for because he would not compete in the 100 meter that was held on Sunday.) Harold devoted himself to winning. Winning was his goal and the fear of losing was what drove him. What is driving us? We all need to be loved and found worthy but the envier makes it competitive. “Envy is ever joined to the comparing of man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.” --Francis Bacon To escape this vice we must find a different foundation for our self-worth as we work on a new vision of who we are, unconditionally beloved children of God. There's a lot of talk about identity. We should all rest assured and repeat— I am a child of God! My worth is found in my Creator. Let's reframe our vision of the world, ourselves, and others beginning with a change of heart. Please join us as we strive to exchange fear and resentment for gratitude and contentment. Good-bye envy, Hello love. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/recapbookchat/message

In this episode host Dustin Plantholt speaks to Joe Foster, a name you may not recognize although it's been in his family for generations. It might surprise you to learn he's built a multi-billion-dollar global company, whose name you'll know as well as your own. The reason you may have never heard of Joe Foster is because his business was never about him. It was about being the best in sport shoes. Does the name Reebok ring a bell?   Foster tells the fascinating story behind how the company got started and how he named it. The shoe business wasn't new to him. In fact, his grandfather's eponymous British company dating back to 1895 became famous for pioneering the spiked running shoe and outfitting the world's best athletes. Wearing shoes made by JW Foster & Sons, Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell won Olympic Gold Medals in the 1924 Paris Olympics and were later immortalized in the Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire.   But after he and his brother Jeff served in the UK's National Service and went to “footwear college” in the evenings, the brothers struck out on their own, opening Mercury Sports Footwear in an old brewery. Discovering that name was already registered, Foster did his first pivot, choosing the name of a small South African gazelle to represent a running shoe company. Two weeks later the name became Reebok.   Some 20 years later, after many failed attempts to break into the American market, they capitalized on an opportunity to make shoes for a new exercise craze sweeping the 1980's—aerobics. When the celebrity queen of aerobics, Jane Fonda herself, donned a pair of the new buttery soft leather shoes in her workout video the brand exploded. Globally.   In five years, Reebok grew from nine to 900 million dollars. For the next four years they focused solely on product delivery to keep up with demand. With solid movement into the American professional sports market, the street followed, and Reebok became a four-billion-dollar company.   Foster credits his success to enthusiasm, optimism, and the willingness to look for what he calls “the white spaces.” Those white spaces, or gaps in the market, give you the opportunity to create something new, perhaps something you never had in mind. Changing the feeling of a sports shoe, made of pliable garment leather for aerobics is a great example. Reebok's coveted pump shoe is another one.   The 87-year-old tells wannabe business owners, “To be an entrepreneur you've got to have optimism.” If you can look at the problem and turn it into a challenge, you can think differently about solutions, often ending up in a better position.   Foster's book, Shoemaker: The Untold Story of the British Family Firm that Became a Global Brand is available on Amazon. Check out his website to learn more Joseph William Foster.   To discover more from Life's Tough Media's expansive collection of inspiring podcasts and services, follow our social media @LifesToughMedia and visit www.lifestough.com.

In one of the many memorable scenes in Chariots of Fire, the two old Cambridge dons look out the window on the departing Harold Abrahams and lament that his attitude is just not that of an English Christian gentleman. “Well”, says John Gielgud as the Master of Trinity College, “there goes your Semite, Hugh. A different God; a different mountaintop.”It's not often that the contrast between the two mountains in Hebrews 12 is alluded to in popular culture. In fact, I think it's safe to say that this may be the one and only and final time.Abrahams belongs to the God of Sinai, the Cambridge don is saying—to the smoking, terrifying, mountain of the law. We (he implies by way of contrast) have a different mountaintop, the heavenly Zion, the joyful assembly of the justified. What's going on here? Are the two stuffy academics casting the professionalized pursuit of individual athletic glory (that they see in Abrahams) as a kind of works-based striving for acceptance? Or is it just the hide-bound prejudice of the self-satisfied Christian elite against the upstart pushy Jewish outsider? Or could it perhaps be a bit of both? This complexity is one of the many layers of meaning that make Chariots of Fire such an entertaining and satisfying story. At this point in the film, the British establishment (in the form of the dons) is arguing for the spirit of the amateur and against the win-at-all costs professionalism of the modern athlete. Sporting endeavours, they say, are about the creation of character: “They foster courage, honesty and leadership. But most of all, an unassailable spirit of loyalty... comradeship and mutual responsibility.” Later in the movie, the British establishment (in the form of Lords Cadogan and Birkenhead, and the Prince of Wales) try to dissuade Eric Liddell from precisely these ideals. They try to talk him out of the courageous, loyal, honest expression of his Christian beliefs (about running on Sunday) so as to win Olympic glory for Britain. Which mountain do the British elites belong to now? The compromised nature of the establishment is highlighted by Liddell's character. He is also an outsider; a Scottish, non-conforming Christian. In many ways, he represents the calm assurance and joy of the heavenly Zion. He runs with a kind of liberated abandon and pleasure that his rival Abrahams can only dream of, and with a sense of commitment, courage and integrity that the Cambridge dons would surely approve of. And yet, ironically, the climactic plot device of the movie—Liddell's Sabbatarian refusal to run on Sundays—suggests that the old mountain of the Law still has some hold on him. The movie closes (and opens) with another twist—the funeral of Harold Abrahams in the church of St Martin-in-the-fields, Abrahams having converted to Christianity around a decade after the events portrayed in the film. Recalling all this is making me want to go and watch again for the umpteenth time, and if you haven't ever done so (i.e. you're probably under 40), let me highly recommend it. But before I zip downstairs and fire up my steam-powered Panasonic VCR and rifle through my VHS collection, a word about why I've been thinking about Chariots of Fire again after all these years. It's because I've been reading Hebrews again, and thinking about how important and climactic the two mountains passage in chapter 12 is in the message of the whole book. As you no doubt know, Hebrews sharply and constantly contrasts the old covenant and the new. For all its glory, the old covenant of Moses is a shadow and forerunner of the ‘things that were to be spoken later'. It testifies and points forward to the new and infinitely better covenant that has now been finally revealed and enacted by the Son. Israel set out on a journey to the promised land of rest, and most didn't make it. We have set on a pilgrimage to a heavenly sabbath rest, under the leadership and ministry of “a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God” (4:14). The contrasts mount up as the book unfolds—the better and final revelation (1:1-4), the better servant-leader (3:1-6), the better sabbath rest, the better high priest and sacrificial atonement made in the better tabernacle (ch 5-10), the better city, the better country, the better resurrection (ch 11), and finally in chapter 12, the better mountain. In all of these contrasts, the ‘betterness' of Jesus' ministry and the new covenant is heavenly. In particular, the sacrificial ministry of Jesus as the one, great and final high priest takes place not in an earthly tent or on an earthly mountain (Jerusalem, Mt Zion). His life is taken on the earthly hill of Calvary, but it is in heaven, in the heavenly tabernacle of God, that he appears and offers himself once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin (9:25-26).On the basis of that eternal, heavenly redemption, the new covenant people of God arrive at their destination—the heavenly Jerusalem, the heavenly mountain of chapter 12. That's what all the heroes of faith in chapter 11 were longing for, but never saw, not even those who entered the physical promised land (like David and Samuel and the prophets, in 11:32). Interestingly, there are two mountains in Hebrews, not three. There's the earthly Sinai and the heavenly Mt Zion, but the earthly Mt Zion doesn't feature. As the book unfolds, Israel is redeemed under Moses, receives the law, journeys towards the land of promise, and has a temporary ineffective priestly ministry in the tabernacle to accompany them. But they never arrive. There is no earthly Jerusalem in Hebrews; no temple, only a tabernacle. There are only two mountains (Sinai and the heavenly Zion), because the promise to Israel was never about an earthly mountain but a better, heavenly one. It is to that heavenly Mt Zion that we have now come through the blood of Christ, through his infinitely greater heavenly sacrifice and redemption. And our response? We must not refuse him who speaks, but fall down before him in submission (12:25-28).This, of course, is the point of the book of Hebrews, and of the two mountains passage in chapter 12. As much as we love this passage as a key plank in our doctrine of the heavenly ‘church' (or assembly), its main function is as the high point, so to speak, of the book's exhortation. Consider what the eternal high priestly work of the Son has done for you; understand where you now stand through the work of Christ; and for heaven's sake (quite literally) don't give up now. Don't drift, don't droop, don't shrink back, don't let your hearts be hardened, don't refuse him who speaks; but instead, draw near for help to the throne of grace that we now have open access to, lay aside every weight and sin that hinders us, and exhort and encourage one another to stand firm and grow in love.The Master of Trinity was only half right. It is a different mountaintop, but not a different God. The same God who spoke in darkness and fire on Sinai is the God who has now fulfilled all his promises through his Son, and brought his people to their heavenly home. Let us continue to serve him, with reverence and awe. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.twoways.news/subscribe

In this week's episode, we're joined by a living legend Joe Foster, founder of Reebok. Joe founded Reebok in 1958 with his late brother Jeff, following their family heritage back to 1895. Joe's Grandfather, also Joseph W Foster, pioneered the spiked running shoe and famously made shoes of some of the world's best athletes of the early 20th century. Wearing (pumps) made by J W Foster & Sons Ltd, Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell won Olympic Gold Medals in the 1928 Paris Olympics and were immortalized in the film ‘Chariots of Fire'. With Reebok, Joe & Jeff followed in his grandfathers footsteps, creating footwear that led to Olympic, Commonwealth, European medals and World record-breaking performances and over time, became the globally recognized brand that we know and love today. Acquired by Adidas in 2005 for $3.8 billion, Joe has since retired and authored a book: “Shoemaker: The Untold Story of the British Family Firm that Became a Global Brand”. In this episode, we discuss about the entrepreneurial journey, and everything Joe has learned along the way when it comes to business and brand. There's a great amount of sharp advice for anyone thinking about starting their own company.

This month, your friendly Oscarologists rally to discuss the most athletic of Best Picture winners. Written by and starring Sylvester Stallone, Rocky (1976) charts the sudden rise to fame of Rocky Balboa, a down on his luck southpaw boxer from Philadelphia. The film also began one of the most successful film franchises in cinema history, with eight sequels. In Chariots of Fire (1982), we follow the competition and shared experiences between fellow 1924 Olympic athletes Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, portrayed by Ben Cross and Ian Charleson, featuring one of the most famous opencing sequences and musical theme by Vangelis. Thank you to Thomas Whitelaw for our intro music and Rachel Valentine Smith for our artwork. 

➡️ Like The Show? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory ➡️ About The Guest Joe founded Reebok in 1958 with his late brother Jeff, following their family heritage back to 1895. Joe's Grandfather, also Joseph W Foster, pioneered the spiked running shoe and famously made shoes of some of the world's best athletes of the early 20th century. Wearing (pumps) made by J W Foster & Sons Ltd, Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell won Olympic Gold Medals in the 1928 Paris Olympics and were immortalized in the film ‘Chariots of Fire'. With Reebok, Joe & Jeff followed in his grandfathers footsteps, creating footwear that led to Olympic, Commonwealth, European medals and World record-breaking performances and over time, became the globally recognized brand that we know and love today. ➡️ Talking Points 07:12 - Using influencers, before they were cool. 20:07 - The origin of the name, Reebok. 24:06 - The importance of moving forward and innovating. 42:03 - Bringing Reebok to the USA. 52:12 - Overnight success is never overnight. 1:02:10 - You need to be dead-set on what you want to accomplish. 1:10:09 - Advice for young entrepreneurs. ➡️ Show Links https://twitter.com/reebokfounder https://www.reebokthefounder.com/ ➡️ Podcast Sponsors 1. Manly Bands — Bands For Men manlybands.com/successstory (25% Off) 2. Masterworks — Learn To Invest In Fine Art https://masterworks.io/successstory 3. Hubspot Podcast Network https://hubspot.com/podcastnetwork

Your Mentor Today- The Founder of Reebok. Joe founded Reebok in 1958 with his late brother Jeff, following their family heritage back to 1895. Joe's Grandfather, also Joseph W Foster, pioneered the spiked running shoe and famously made shoes for the Worlds best athletes of the early 20th century, with World records and Olympics Gold Medals.Wearing (pumps) made by J W Foster & Sons Ltd, Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell won Olympic Gold Medals in the 1928 Paris Olympics and were immortalised in the film ‘Chariots of Fire'.With Reebok they followed in his footsteps, with Olympic, Commonwealth and European medals and World record breaking performances, represented now by the range of Reebok Classics.The Foster family had been hand-making running shoes since the late 19th century, supplying the likes of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams - later immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire - as well as providing boots to most football league clubs. But a feud between Joe Foster's father and his uncle about the direction of J W Foster & Sons prompted Joe and his brother Jeff to leave the family business and set up a new company. Inspired by the success of brands such as Adidas, Reebok was born and Joe's ambitions were sky-high.At first, money was so tight that Joe, Jeff and their wives all lived in their rundown factory, with the heavy shoe-making machinery strategically placed to avoid the floor collapsing. As the business grew in fits and starts, Joe's vision for the brand became ever clearer and the setbacks, near bankruptcies and tough lessons only served to push Joe and reebok harder towards the ultimate goal: breaking AmericaWhile Reebok continued to be known for it's excellent running shoes, it's big break came thanks to the aerobics craze of the 1980's. Soon Reeboks were on Hollywoods red carpets, on the feet of rock stars and even played a starring role in Aliens when Sigourney Weaver took down extra-terrestrials in a pair of Reebok Alien Stompers.Shoemaker tell Joe Foster's inspiring story, revealing the grit, hard choices and personal sacrifices that go into creating a world beating brand. It's a take of belief - with the right products and the right vision, the risks can pay off and a family business in a small factory in Bolton can be transformed into a global phenomenon.Listen To The More We Know ⇨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/1134704​Subscribe ⇨https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvfd5ddf72Btbck8SdeyBwFollow my Instagram ⇨ https://www.instagram.com/sameer.sawaqed/?hl=enFollow my Twitter ⇨ https://twitter.com/commitwithmeer

The Foster family had been hand-making running shoes since the late 19th century, supplying the likes of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams - later immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire - as well as providing boots to most football league clubs. But a feud between Joe Foster's father and his uncle about the direction of J W Foster & Sons prompted Joe and his brother Jeff to leave the family business and set up a new company. Inspired by the success of brands such as Adidas, Reebok was born and Joe's ambitions were sky-high.At first, money was so tight that Joe, Jeff and their wives all lived in their rundown factory, with the heavy shoe-making machinery strategically placed to avoid the floor collapsing. As the business grew in fits and starts, Joe's vision for the brand became ever clearer and the setbacks, near bankruptcies and tough lessons only served to push Joe and reebok harder towards the ultimate goal: breaking AmericaWhile Reebok continued to be known for it's excellent running shoes, it's big break came thanks to the aerobics craze of the 1980's. Soon Reeboks were on Hollywoods red carpets, on the feet of rock stars and even played a starring role in Aliens when Sigourney Weaver took down extra-terrestrials in a pair of Reebok Alien Stompers.Shoemaker tell Joe Foster's inspiring story, revealing the grit, hard choices and personal sacrifices that go into creating a world beating brand. It's a take of belief - with the right products and the right vision, the risks can pay off and a family business in a small factory in Bolton can be transformed into a global phenomenon.Connect with Joe & buy his book Shoemaker out now: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/reebokthefounder/Twitter - https://twitter.com/reebokfounderLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-foster-a38a4b10b/Buy his book here: https://www.booktopia.com.au/shoemaker-joe-foster/book/9781471194023.html?source=pla&gclid=Cj0KCQjw8IaGBhCHARIsAGIRRYruZKQwhfeEeMhOVYCbyB_LsZpIbCtn944_2Xe9_S8YHvdm92LiwcsaAk_uEALw_wcBhttps://www.amazon.com.au/Shoemaker-Reebok-Untold-Lancashire-Changed-ebook/dp/B081ZCM7LJ Follow The Story Box on Social MediaINSTAGRAM ► - https://www.instagram.com/thestoryboxpodcast/ TWITTER ► - https://twitter.com/jay_fantom FACEBOOK ► - https://www.facebook.com/thestoryboxpodcast WEBSITE ► - https://thestoryboxpodcast.com/SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE! Apple Podcast ► - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-story-box/id1486295252 Spotify ► - https://open.spotify.com/show/7h8Qv3r2ZV29f7ktJOwmgM?si=FXxYC1JFSHesBv7_d1WtNQ WATCH HERE:YouTube ► - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheStoryBox If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to YouTube & Apple Podcasts, and leave a 5-star positive rating and review over on Apple Podcasts. Share it around with your friends and family.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thestorybox. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

La France sortait d’une guerre atroce, elle était en train de se reconstruire, et les parisiens voulaient rattraper le temps perdu et vivre à cent à l’heure. La pression montait, les moqueries aussi. Le Prince de Galles lui-même essayait de raisonner Éric Liddell. « Mais Dieu ne peut pas être contre le fait que vous courriez le dimanche, de toute façon vous vous devez d’obéir à votre Prince ». Éric avait répliqué que, bien qu’il reconnût et respectât son prince et souverain, il se devait d’obéir au Roi des Rois. Le prince de Galles ne pouvait plus rien répondre. Éric n’était pas bien vu pour d’autres raisons, il refusait de participer aux festivités organisées pour les athlètes. Il préférait rester dans sa chambre à lire la Bible et à chercher le Seigneur. Cela aussi le Prince de Galles le lui avait reproché. Mais rien ne pouvait ébranler la détermination de l’athlète : Dieu d’abord. Voyant que rien ne pouvait le faire changer d'avis, Harold Abrahams fut désigné pour courir le 100 mètres. C’était le seul espoir pour l’Angleterre de gagner une médaille. Abrahams était un étudiant de l’Université de Cambridge. Il était de confession israélite. Pour lui le sabbat c’était le samedi, donc courir le dimanche ne lui posait aucun problème. Éric respectait cela. Il rendit visite à Abrahams avant la course et lui souhaita bonne chance. Le dimanche, Abrahams se plaça sur la ligne de départ des préliminaires des 100 mètres. Pendant ce temps Éric prêchait dans l’Eglise Ecossaise, Scott Kirk, à l’autre bout de Paris. Harold se qualifia lors des deux épreuves préliminaires. Le lendemain il était prêt pour la finale. Éric Liddell était dans les gradins et l’encourageait. Abrahams remporta les 100 mètres en 10,6 secondes sous un tonnerre d’applaudissements. Jamais un européen n’avait gagné une médaille d’or pour les cent mètres. Il faudrait attendre 56 ans pour qu’un européen réussisse à nouveau cet exploit. Éric partageait la joie d’Abrahams, même s’il avait peut-être ressenti un petit pincement au cœur puisque le 100 mètres était SA course. Mais en même temps il ressentait la joie du Seigneur, parce qu’il avait obéi. Le Seigneur le récompensait en lui faisant ressentir Son approbation. Se sentir approuvé par le Seigneur valait toutes les médailles d’or du monde. C’est pour cela qu’il avait pu partager pleinement la joie d’Abrahams. Cette attitude étonnait beaucoup. Éric était sous les feux des projecteurs. Il était observé par tout le monde. S’il avait montré le moindre signe de faiblesse, ou de déception ou d’envie, ni la presse, ni le public ne l’auraient raté. Il était chrétien, et à cause de cela on ne lui passait rien. Peut-être qu’au fond certains étaient confrontés par son attitude ? Le mardi avait lieu les épreuves éliminatoires du 200 mètres. Harold Abrahams et Éric Liddell se qualifièrent tous deux pour la finale qui avait lieu le mercredi. Il faisait très chaud ce mercredi de juillet sur le stade de la Courneuve. Le stade était bondé. Tout le monde voulait voir ce phénomène qui avait bravé la sacro-sainte loi olympique et l’autorité de son Prince pour obéir au Roi des Rois et se soumettre à cette loi supérieure qu’est la Loi de Dieu. Éric avait chaud. Il s’agenouilla sur la ligne de départ à côté de quatre américains et d’Harold Abrahams. Dans son cœur, il priait. Il était en paix. Ce qui comptait ce n’était pas qu’il gagne mais que Dieu soit glorifié. Il voulait donner gloire à son Dieu. Le signal donné, les athlètes s’élancèrent. Abrahams et Liddell prirent un bon départ mais ils furent vite devancés par deux américains qui finirent respectivement premier et deuxième. Éric termina troisième et Abrahams sixième et dernier.

Good morning everyone! Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Dean Booty. Today we have a book review and it's called "Shoemaker: The Untold Story of the British Family Firm that Became a Global Brand" by Joe Foster. Since the late 19th century, the Foster family had been hand-making running shoes, supplying the likes of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams - later immortalized in the film Chariots of Fire - as well as providing boots to most Football League clubs. But a family feud between Foster's father and uncle about the direction of their business led to Joe and his brother Jeff setting up a new company, inspired by the success of Adidas and Puma, and so Reebok was born. Please give it a listen. Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2VkXGHq Listen on Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/39TYebQ Motivated Entrepreneurs Website: https://motivatedentrepreneurs.co.uk/ Please Like, Share, and Subscribe to Motivated Entrepreneurs Youtube Channel: https://bit.ly/3eA64u5   Cheers, Dean

The Foster family had been hand-making running shoes since the late 19th century, supplying the likes of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams - later immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire - as well as providing boots to most football league clubs. But a feud between Joe Foster’s father and his uncle about the direction of J W Foster & Sons prompted Joe and his brother Jeff to leave the family business and set up a new company. Inspired by the success of brands such as Adidas, Reebok was born and Joe’s ambitions were sky-high.At first, money was so tight that Joe, Jeff and their wives all lived in their rundown factory, with the heavy shoe-making machinery strategically placed to avoid the floor collapsing. As the business grew in fits and starts, Joe’s vision for the brand became ever clearer and the setbacks, near bankruptcies and tough lessons only served to push Joe and reebok harder towards the ultimate goal: breaking America On this Episode: The power of marketing Value of influencer marketing How to establish brand trust Adapting your business to social climate Corporate model for a family startup Instagram Twitter LinkedIn

Listen the remarkable story of how Joe Foster developed Reebok into one of the world's most famous sports brands, having started from a small factory in Bolton. Since the late 19th century, the Foster family had been hand-making running shoes, supplying the likes of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams - later immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire - as well as providing boots to most Football League clubs. But a family feud between Foster's father and uncle about the direction of their business led to Joe and his brother Jeff setting up a new company, inspired by the success of Adidas and Puma, and so Reebok was born. About Joe Foster - https://g.co/kgs/rpLXY8 Get his life-changing book shoemaker - https://www.amazon.in/dp/B081ZCM7LJ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_jcg9FbPJJEH7P Subscribe to my YouTube channel - https://youtube.com/c/Vikrantworld Say hi on social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vikrantworld/?hl=en Facebook - https://m.facebook.com/bk.yadav.37625?ref_component=mbasic_home_header&ref_page=%2Fwap%2Fhome.php&refid=8 Twitter - (@Vikrant_world): https://twitter.com/Vikrant_world?s=09 Listen to New age podcast - https://radiopublic.com/new-age-podcast-WR9Vvx#t=17 About vikrantworld - My name is Vikrant yadav. I’m the creator of vikrantworld & New age . I always believed in self-education. By absorbing the thoughts and ideas of the smartest individuals on this planet, you can truly move forward in life. My mission is to deliver these key insights to you. In that way, you can grow and prosper in all life areas.Besides my passion for Entrepreneurship  , I help individuals build their business online .  Tags - how to start business , how to become an entrepreneur , entrepreneur #vikrantworld #Entrepreneur #dreamer

If you are of a certain age you will almost certainly be familiar with Eric Liddell even though you may not recognize the name. Liddell, along with Harold Abrahams, was the subject of the fantastic 1981 film 'Chariots of Fire'. And if you haven't seen the film then you at least know the theme song from it. If you haven't seen 'Chariots of Fire' you definitely should check it out but there is a lot more to Liddell than the two or three years of athletic focus featured in the film. We'll cover the totality of his life on this podcast episode.Note: Some of the names of people or places in this episode are completely foreign to me. Please excuse any horribly misspoken pronunciations that may appear.RESOURCESEric Liddell Centre: https://www.ericliddell.org/about-us/eric-liddell/biography/The Gospel Coalition: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/for-the-glory/Missions Box: https://missionsbox.org/missionary-bio/eric-liddell/Weihsien Paintings: https://www.weihsien-paintings.org/NormanCliff/people/individuals/Eric01/txt_dates.htmhttp://www.weihsien-paintings.org/EricLiddell/index.phpABWE International: https://www.abwe.org/blog/%E2%80%98jesus-running-shoes%E2%80%99-honoring-eric-liddell-75-years-laterChristianity.com: https://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1901-2000/eric-liddell-champion-athlete-11630736.htmlIntro Music: Country Strumstick Mountain Hop, by Andy Slater

On this episode, we discuss the fifty-fourth Best Picture Winner: “CHARIOTS OF FIRE.”"Chariots of Fire" takes place in the class-obsessed and religiously divided United Kingdom of the early 1920s, where two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart Sybil in his single-minded quest. Directed by Hugh Hudson, the film stars Ian Charleson as Eric Liddell, Ben Cross as Harold Abrahams, Alice Krige as Sybil Gordon, and Ian Holm as Sam Mussabini.Here on The Envelope, we discuss & review every Best Picture Winner in the Academy Awards History. You can reach anyone here at TheEnvelopePodcast.com – Just go there to email us, check our bios, and keep up with the latest episode.

Karen Korellis Reuther,  is VP Creative Design & Futures at Reebok . A woman pioneer in the male-dominated world of industrial design, she spent the formative years of her career working in the Boston high tech sector with early disrupters Digital Equipment Corp & Wang Labs, where she was the first woman to ever be awarded a design patent. After a successful stint as an entrepreneur consulting for clients including Blaupunkt, Braun, Miehle & other iconic European design-centric brands, she spent 12 years as Creative Designer at Nike, and after an interim career step, joined Reebok 19 months ago. The Reebok brand has a history of innovation. It’s predecessor company, JW Foster, was founded by a British teenager. He literally created the first spiked running shoe, which was used by the British Olympics team‘s 100 meter world champion sprinter Harold Abrahams to win the gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics. This moment was immortalized in the Academy Award winning film, “Chariots of Fire”. The Reebok Freestyle, introduced in 1982, was the first athletic shoe designed specifically for woman. It symbolized the huge aerobics craze, becoming one of the most successful athletic shoes of all time. The Reebok Pump was another noteworthy Reebok innovation when introduced in 1989. Over 100 professional athletes wore the shoe at its peak. Curently, Reebok is the official footwear and apparel sponsor for CrossFit, and the Spartan Race. It’s also increased its presence in yoga and dance in recent years.   Today, in addition to its long-standing focus on superior athletic performance, the brand is also heavily focused on sustainability. Their first breakthrough product, the “Cotton+Corn” lifestyle shoe, remains a major seller 4 years after launch, a rarity in the lifestyle category. It also won an award from PETA. Recently, Reebok introduced the Floatride Forever GROW performance athletic shoe. 6 years in development, working closely with partners to create new materials, the shoe is made of 75% plant-based material. The company is highly committed to producing 100% biodegradable shoes. They’re also committed to climate friendly apparel materials.  

Movie Club is now in session! We welcome our newest contributor Fran Johnson (aka Film Buff Fran) to lead us in a discussion of "Chariots of Fire," the Academy Award- and BAFTA-winning story of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams, British runners who competed at the Paris 1924 Olympics. As mentioned in the show, there was a documentary produced in the run up to London 2012 that traced the real Chariots of Fire. Also, Listener Don and his wife Liz are watching, eating and blogging their way through the Criterion collection of official Olympic films. They're taking on Paris 1924 soon--and Don says you can see some of the "Chariots of Fire" characters in the film! Be sure to check it out at Sprockets of Fire. In our Tokyo 2020 update, the Organizing Committee has released the 20 commissioned art posters for the Olympics (12) and Paralympics (8). If you can tell us the significance of the scary cat person, please contact us! Thanks to our show sponsor RR Auction. Register for its upcoming Olympic memorabilia auction, which features Olympic medals, diplomas, torches, tickets and more! Bidding starts TODAY and runs through the 16th. When you register, be sure to mention Olympic Fever! Thanks also to our Team Olympic Fever Update sponsor PinCollector.com. If you collect Olympic pins, you must be on this site. Show off your collection and find pins you want to add to it. You can buy, sell and trade on the platform—all at lower rates than other online platforms. Thanks to PinCollector, we have our own Olympic Fever pin. Support the show, and you’ll get one of your very own (and while supplies last, a genuine Olympic card to go with it!). DISCLAIMER: OLYMPIC® is a trademark of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (“USOPC”). Any use of OLYMPIC® in the Olympic Fever podcast is strictly for informational and commentary purposes. The Olympic Fever podcast is not an official podcast of the USOPC. The Olympic Fever podcast is not a sponsor of the USOPC, nor is Olympic Fever associated with or endorsed by USOPC in any way. The content of Olympic Fever podcast does not reflect the opinions, standards, views, or policies of the USOPC, and the USOPC in no way warrants that content featured in Olympic Fever is accurate.

Erin and Hannah discuss Chariots of Fire, a film on the Never Seen list for them both. Erin was familiar with the film due to her background in running, while Hannah knew of it from the faith community angle. Both were surprised by its gentle, quiet retelling of two amazingly talented runners vying for Olympic Gold in 1924. Eric Liddell is a Christian whose faith frames his quest as part of his life goal of serving God. Harold Abrahams is Jewish, driven to prove his worth through his running feats.

In 1924, the British sprinter, Harold Abrahams, won the 100 metres at the Paris Olympics - a famous victory depicted in the film, Chariots of Fire. Simon Watts tells his story using interviews in the BBC archives. (Photo: Harold Abrahams winning the 1924 Olympics. Credit: Getty Images)

Joe Coffey | In many ways, Jesus’ death on the cross gave us freedom. We became free from the law of sin and death, allowing us to flourish as we recognize we are justified through Jesus and nothing else. This week, Pastor Joe explains that, thanks to the cross, the structure is now in place for you to be you… But in the eyes of God, your worth doesn’t depend on your identity – it was all determined by what happened on the cross.

Joe Coffey | In many ways, Jesus’ death on the cross gave us freedom. We became free from the law of sin and death, allowing us to flourish as we recognize we are justified through Jesus and nothing else. This week, Pastor Joe explains that, thanks to the cross, the structure is now in place for you to be you… But in the eyes of God, your worth doesn’t depend on your identity – it was all determined by what happened on the cross.

Description This week we talk about Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell from The 1981 film Chariots of Fire. We talk about several things, but mostly you’ll want to listen to Todd do quotes from the movie in a Scottish accent. … Continue reading →

Chariots of Fire is the true story of "the man who wouldn't run on a Sunday." It tells the story of two great British athletes training for the 1924 Olympics: Christian missionary Eric Liddell and equally talented Harold Abrahams. Liddell and Abrahams take two very different approaches to their running: Abrahams finds his identity in it, and Liddell does it to the glory of God. This sermon reviews the film and draws out amazing lessons and examples of what faithfulness to God looks like in action.

Título original Chariots of Fire Año 1981 Duración 123 min. País Reino Unido Reino Unido Director Hugh Hudson Guión Colin Welland Música Vangelis Fotografía David Watkin Reparto Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Cheryl Campbell, Alice Krige, Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Lindsay Anderson, Brad Davis, Dennis Christopher, Nigel Davenport, Peter Egan, Patrick Magee, Kenneth Branagh Productora 20th Century Fox / Allied Stars present an Enigma Production. Producer: David Puttnam Género Drama | Biográfico. Deporte. Atletismo. Años 20. Años 70. Juegos olímpicos Sinopsis En 1920, Gran Bretaña contaba con dos atletas excepcionales: Harold Abrahams y Eric Lidell. Las razones que los movían a correr era tan diferentes como sus vidas: pertenecían a mundos distintos, cada uno tenía sus propias creencias y su propio concepto del triunfo.

Pastor Andy Davis preaches a verse-by-verse expository sermon on Galatians 5:16-18, and our dependency on the Holy Spirit to equip us for daily spiritual warfare. - SERMON TRANSCRIPT - Turn in your Bibles to Galatians 5:16-18. We're going to be looking for a second week at Galatians 5:16-18. And I was just thinking about how we were right in the middle of the sermon last week, and just ran out of time. So we are just picking it right back up again. I was thinking about a hero in the Bible we know very little about, and he is in the last verse in Judges chapter 3, a man named Shamgar who followed Ehud. We know nothing about but we know this, he killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad. Now I don't know what an ox goad is, but I think it's a sharpened stick. I'm thinking what kind of man do you need to be to kill 600 Philistines with a sharpened stick? And then there's another question, how do you do it? And I think the answer must be one at a time. Then I must think that these Philistines have got to be the stupidest warriors in history; seven or eight of them jump this guy, it's over. But then I picture this in my mind and always and I want to go to Christ, and I think Jesus fulfilled that image for me. Jesus is the warrior who took on in His life every single temptation that Satan threw at him and killed them all. They laid dead at His feet. He lived a perfectly holy life, and now we by the Spirit can sit at His feet, this great champion who is Jesus, and we are asking him, "Teach us to be warriors for You, O Lord." Do you realize how many warfare images there are in the Old Testament? There are so many. And many of us, just perhaps many of you, are not all that interested in military history. Others of you very interested like myself. But some of you may be wondering why so many battles, why so much killing? Why so much warfare? Abraham had to fight a war to rescue his nephew Lot, you remember? Right on through the book of Joshua, it's just one battle after another, and Judges one battle after another. And then once you get into the era of the Kings it's just one invasion and one battle after another. Sometimes they went one way, sometimes another. But why so much warfare? And there's a lot of reasons for that but I think one of them is to teach us in the New Covenant we are at war and we need to fight, and teaches us how to fight. I think that's one answer, and I think as I read the pages of these warriors in the past, how they fought, how they relied on God and won, how they did not rely on God and lost. There are so many lessons for me in the warfare I find myself in today and that all of you do as well. So as we plunge right in here into these three key verses, I want to remind you of the things we've already said. The Apostle Paul is writing in this Book of Galatians about the doctrine of salvation, how it is a sinner is made right with God, and I'm not going to go over by way of review, but these false teachers were saying that salvation from sin is a combination of faith in Jesus plus obedience to the laws of Moses, and Paul said that is no gospel at all. And he just unfolds how we are not justified by works of the Law but faith in Christ alone. We come to the Galatians five and Paul sums it all up saying, "It is for freedom that Christ has set you free. Stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." And so we are to fight against anything that would enslave us. Now the immediate context was we will not be enslaved by false gospels that teach legalism; we will not be enslaved by legalism. We will break all of those chains of legalism. We will know that our sins will never be forgiven by what we do, never. We are forgiven by what Christ did, amen? By His works of righteousness and specifically by His work on the cross we are freed from our sin, from the guilt of our sins. Now we have said again and again and I don't think I can say it too much, salvation from sin comes to us in stages. None of us who are here in the flesh now, none of us is fully saved. We're not done being saved. There's yet more salvation work to be done on us. The first stage of salvation as it comes to us, is justification. What does that mean? It means the act by which the judge of all the earth, the sovereign God of all the universe declares you a sinner, not guilty in His sight, righteous in His sight. A simple word for it is forgiveness, that we are forgiven by faith in Christ alone. Now at the moment of justification, we become adopted sons and daughters of the living God and that will never change. And we receive the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, the Spirit of adoption by which we cry out "Abba, Father." Having been justified by faith we are then launched out into a life of working out salvation, of gradual steady growth in Christ-likeness called sanctification. And the rules of the game, if we can use that language, are different than justification. Whereas our works were not welcome in justification, they are essential to sanctification. We must work or we will not grow. Now we work in a certain way, we work by the power of the Spirit, we work with the solid rock or justification under our feet. We work understanding all the time that we are forgiven, we are not guilty, but we must work. And we will battle sin and we're at war. We're going to talk about all that again today but that leads finally to glorification, the final act of the salvation drama for an individual is glorification. "Having been justified by faith we are then launched out into a life of working out salvation, of gradual steady growth in Christ-likeness called sanctification. " Glorification happens generally in two stages. Two stages, if we're not the final generation, it'll happen for you in two stages. First at death, when your soul is separated from your body, your body will go to corruption in the grave but your soul will be instantaneously perfected by the sovereign grace of God and you will never again sin. Isn't that awesome? I'm yearning for that more and more, I'm yearning for that moment but that's not finished because God willed for us to be in bodies, he willed for us human beings to live in physical bodies and so the final act of our salvation, is the resurrection from the dead. At the second coming of Christ, we will be raised up incorruptible and we will be in resurrection bodies as glorious as Jesus's body and that is it, that's the finish line for you. Now we're right smacked up in the middle, if you are a Christian today you're listening to me, you are in the middle of your sanctification struggle or battle or journey. There's a lot of different ways we can talk about it and these verses, I hope, will help you in that battle. I believe it's my ministry, as Jesus said to Peter "feed my sheep," I want to feed you and nourish you for your battle this week. I want you to get ready for your battle, I want you to get ready for warfare, so by way of review, last time we talked about a command in verse 16. The Apostle Paul said to the Galatian Christians, "So I say, walk by the Spirit" or "live by the Spirit," The Holy Spirit we talked about. The Holy Spirit is the sovereign power behind your sanctification progress. He is as essential to your sanctification as Jesus to your justification, without Jesus you cannot be justified, without the Spirit you cannot be sanctified. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, we see right away in the second verse of the Bible hovering over the waters of the deep and he comes and actually dwells inside of you the moment you become a Christian and there he lives with you forever, he will never leave you. Now we are begun by the Spirit, we are not then perfected by the flesh. We, by the Spirit, seek to make progress and sanctification. The command here in verse 16 is to walk or to live your daily life by the power of the Holy Spirit. So we came last week to the incomprehensible mystery, the difficult mystery of God's power and our effort. How do they go together? How do we understand those two? In justification they don't go together, In glorification they will not go together, you will do nothing to glorify yourself, and you did nothing to justify yourself. It is justification by faith alone apart from works. It is glorification by God's sovereign power apart from works. But in between these two, we have works and you must work. Now they're two wrong extremes, we do everything versus we do nothing, we do everything is sheer legalism, that's the very thing that we've been against this entire epistle. You are on your own, there's the standard, now live it. But we already know we can't do that. We have seen that again and again, that is not what sanctification is all about. But on the other side, neither is it true that we do nothing. We're not going to be taken to heaven on a flowery beds of ease. It is not true that if you are striving and struggling you are out of God's will. There might be an individual who's been struggling, let's say with internet pornography and for the first time he's convicted, and for the first time he's putting up a fight and he's struggling, that's the first indication of sanctification in that area, he's struggling. Now the Keswick theology holiness, this “let go and let God” thing that says, "Cease striving and know that I'm God," and if you're striving and working you're not doing it right. That is just completely wrong. We talked about that last time, instead we are told to make an extreme effort in a Christian life. Many verses teach this, many. I. Obey the Command: Walk by the Spirit (verse 16) Just the grammatical nature of verse 16, we're being commanded by Paul to walk by the Spirit. We have a command right in front of there something we must do. We must walk by the Spirit. There are other verses that are even clearer than this. 1 Corinthians 9, “Don't you know that in a race all the runners run but only one gets the prize, run so you may win. Now everyone who competes in those games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore, [says Paul] I don't run like a man running aimlessly, I don't fight like a man beating the air, I beat my body and make it my slave, lest after I've preached to others I myself may be disqualified for the prize.” That's hard running. You remember the movie "Chariots Of Fire"? I love that movie. There are so many great illustrations from that movie, but there this one moment which the Jewish runner Harold Abrahams, is called in to these two men, these older men who are frustrated by how diligently he's training. Remember that scene? They're having tea together and with a very aristocratic kind of feel they say to him, "You've been acting like a tradesman, you need to act like the elite. If you're going to a run, run like the elite," meaning without severe training. And Harold Abrahams says, "You know, you yearn for a victory attained with the seeming effortlessness of Gods, it's not how it's going to be, effortless." So I'm just totally ripping that off and applying it right here alright, you're not going to just coast into sanctification. You're not going to just coast into the Heaven. You've got to run this race. And it's going to take everything you have to succeed. And as I've thought about this, it occurs me, God wants the war. He wants the struggle, he wants the valor, He wants the courage, He wants you to serve him, when it's hard. There's some things we can do here on earth that can't do in Heaven and one of them is suffer, and He wants us to suffer for His glory. He's greatly glorified when we suffer and trust Him and get through some very difficult temptation and kill it. He's glorified by that. And He wants us to glorify Him. So, you folks will have just countless, probably among all of you, thousands of opportunities this week to glorify God by putting sin to death. And He wants you to do it. It is to His glory to do it. And so you need as Paul said at the end of his life, "I've fought the good fight, I've finished the race, I've kept the faith, now there is in store for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord will award to me." He wants you to do that. He wants you to run your race now, He wants you to fight your fight, He wants you finish this race and He wants you to keep the faith and continue believing in Jesus. However, you must know that all of that is done only by the power of the Spirit, only by the Spirit, never independently. And so key harmonizing verse we looked at last time Philippians 2:12-13 says "Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose." So God by the Spirit is working inside you to will it, he wants you to will it so that you want holiness, and then to do it. But you are called on to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. There's hard work involved and it's not easy. Now I want you to take a minute and we're going to be working back and forth between these three verses, Galatians 5:16-18 and Romans 6-8, those three chapters. This is like a kind of a quick charcoal sketch on mortification, sanctification. The full treatise is unfolded in Romans 6-8. And so if you really want to understand sanctification, if you want to understand mortification, that is putting sin to death, really Romans 6-8 gives you the comprehensive teaching. This is just some quick statements that Paul makes in Galatians but the fuller treatise is in Romans. If you want to hear how I preached through Romans 6, 7, 8 they're online. You can listen to them and I will commend some of them to you. We went through that over a long period of time and so I would urge you to go back and listen. But the key verse for me in Romans, is Romans 8:13-14. We're going to be looking at this a little bit this morning in conjunction with Galatians. But there in Romans 8:13-14 it says "For if you live according to the flesh you will die." Now, I just believe in context that means "Go to Hell." Not just that you'll die physically. I think it means you're not a Christian. If you live according to the flesh you will die, you will perish. "But if, by the Spirit, you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live." In my mind I read that, "Live eternally," go to Heaven. So this is just two different ways to live. Life of the flesh, life of the Spirit. Those are just two different ways to live. "Because," Romans 8:14, "those who are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God." And you could again put in your mind “these and only these.” These are the only ones who are the true children of God. So genuine Christians are at war against the deeds of the flesh or the misdeeds of the body. "These are the only ones who are the true children of God. So genuine Christians are at war against the deeds of the flesh or the misdeeds of the body." So again, just keep your finger there or bookmark or whatever and then just go back to Galatians 5. What do we mean by this, the deeds of the flesh? They're listed for us and we'll go there, God willing, in our next few weeks, Galatians 5:19-21, "The acts of the flesh are obvious: Sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery, idolatry and witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions and envy, drunkenness, orgies and the like." And then that's why I say if you're living that life, he says very plainly "I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like that will not inherit the kingdom of God." So it is not the case that if you have prayed a prayer and claim to be a Christian and then you're living however you want and these words characterize how you're living that you're fine, "Once saved always saved" and you're going to Heaven, that is not true. It is not true that justification means you can sin as much as you want and go to Heaven. That is not the Christian life. If you're truly justified, the warrior God, Holy Spirit comes within you and he starts to war against these things. He hates them and he will fight them. And if that warfare's going on and you're being led by the Spirit, you're a child of God. So every single day what that means is, every single day the Holy Spirit gets you up, gets you dressed and sends you into battle. He doesn’t send you alone, he's with you, he never leaves you or forsakes you, but he is with you. Alright, so that's all by way of review. And it's beautiful we are not passive in this, in this warfare, neither are we abandoned in it, amen. Not passive and not abandoned. Spirit is with us and we have to fight. II. Believe the Promise: You Will Not Gratify the Lusts of the Flesh (verse 16) Alright so secondly, believe the promise. You will not gratify the loss of the flesh. Look at the whole statement, "but I say, walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh." So what Paul's saying here is the direct result of walking by the Spirit is success. You won't gratify the loss of the flesh. These two are diametrically opposed, as we'll see. There is a 100% success rate for everyone filled with the Spirit in facing temptation. Every time you're filled with the Spirit and temptation comes, you will win. Okay? The Spirit is completely effective in enabling us to live holy lives. Of course he is, he's God, he's the Sovereign Spirit. Again from the Judges, think about Samson. Remember when that young lion jumped on Samson and he threw it off and ripped it apart? Says in Judges 14:6 "The Spirit of the Lord, rushed upon him in power. So that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat." We were actually joking about this the other day, how do you tear young goats? But I think we know what he meant. I personally never torn a young goat. But you could imagine it's easier to tear apart a young goat than it is a young lion. And Samson, it was the same either way. He was able to kill this lion who came on him by the power of the Spirit, the Spirit rushed upon him and he won. So it is with us in temptation, amen? The devil is like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. You resist him standing firm in the Spirit and you will win. That's what we're saying. So we have this promise, we have to believe it, it's a sweet promise. It's also convicting and a diagnosis after sin. Temptation comes on you, you yield, you sin, you violate your conscience, you know you have sinned. You know you weren't in the Spirit. You didn't by the Spirit put to death, it wasn't like you tried and didn't work. You were not at that moment controlled by the Spirit, that's what we know, just in after the fact. III. Expect Constant Warfare: Flesh vs. Spirit (verse 17) Thirdly, expect constant warfare, flesh versus Spirit. Look at verse 17, "For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit, what it desires, is against the flesh. These are opposed to each other, so that you not do what you want." Now we come to the issue of this word, "flesh." What do we mean by the flesh? And what are the lusts of the flesh? Well, the word "flesh" is very interesting. It's not just used in this one sense, and that's what makes it a little bit difficult. The flesh sometimes refers to just a physical body like the soft tissue, your organs, your muscles, your circulatory system, your tendons, nerves as opposed to bone. So flesh and bone together makes up the body. I'm not being really technical here but this is just how the Bible uses the term in that sense. And there's nothing intrinsically sinful or wicked about it. We're not dualists, saying that physical stuff is evil, we are not saying that. Actually it says in John 1:14, the word Jesus, became flesh and made his dwelling among us. And so Jesus became human, became physical, and there's nothing wrong with that. And not only that, but after His resurrection, He became flesh again. Now, He was in a resurrection body but he still uses the same terminology. When they didn't believe what they were seeing in Luke, they couldn't understand, they were just so amazed and filled with joy but still not sure what they were seeing. Jesus said this, "Look at my hands and my feet, it is I Myself, touch me and see. A ghost, doesn't have [listen] flesh and bones as you see I have." That's in His resurrection body, uses the same word flesh. So the word flesh generally just means that muscles... And beasts have the flesh. You can eat the flesh of this or that. It was by Jesus's physical body, his flesh, that our sins were atoned for. In Colossians 1, Paul is writing to dualists who tended to deny the value or the benefit of things physical and to deny that Jesus even came physically. He said, no, He came physically and not only that, it was by his physical body dying on the cross that your sins were atoned for. Colossians 1:22 "He's reconciled you by his physical body." Now, what does the word flesh then mean here? What does it mean? Well, let me just give you a simple way of understanding it. Do you see lists of the acts of that flesh? Do you see that list? In Galatians 5:19-21 "The acts of the flesh are obvious, sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, greed." That whole list. The flesh is that internal part of you that produces that. That whole list, that's what the flesh is. I don't know what it is, but it produces that list of sins. Now, the NIV, generally translates flesh in this sense, sinful nature. Sinful nature. So that's that part of you that's inside of you, that makes you do evil rebellious things contrary to the law of God. Now, a clear description of the flesh, the clearest description is in Romans again, Romans 7. So if you're still in that region, you can look at Romans 7. And verses 14-20 in general, talk about... I don't have time to read through it all, but what Paul says is, "The very thing I want to do, I do not do, but the thing I hate, I do. Now, if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it but it is sin living in me that does it." So that's... I think that's flesh. Indwelling sin, sin living in you that does it, the internal sin nature. Now, why is the word flesh so closely related to the body? Why does Paul choose this to talk about that sinful nature? Well I think it's because the body is a seat of sin. It's also a vessel for serving God. We can't serve him without our bodies in this world. So that's why Paul says he beats his body, makes it a slave, rather than just killing his body, because if he killed his body, he's commit suicide, he'd be out of this world, couldn't serve Jesus in this world. So the body is... It's good and bad. It's a vehicle for serving God but it has to be watched very closely. Why is that? Paul uses other terminology in Romans such as "body of sin," and "body of death." And it's linked to the bodily drives. And this is what I think happens, in Adam, in sin, the sinful nature, indwelling sin hijacks normal physical things and pushes them beyond boundaries set by God into sin. It pushes you. A normal good bodily desire pushes it into something that's evil. So, the desire to be loved becomes the drive to be worshipped and esteemed. Like the devil wanted Jesus to fall down and worship him. We are like that. We want to be worshipped. The desire to eat, becomes a drive toward gluttony. The desire to drink, a drive toward drunkenness. The desire for sexual pleasure, becomes the drive towards sexual immorality of many kinds. Fornication, adultery, homosexuality, promiscuity, pornography, all of these things are displays of the flesh. We’ll talk more about it next week. The desire for pleasure of any type, soft clothes, comfortable living arrangements, well-crafted automobile, or wrist watch, becomes materialism and pleasure-seeking, yearning for only the best and luxury. It's what the flesh does. The desire for productive labor becomes a drive toward workaholicism, seeking the praise of others for the excellence of the work that you do. The love for any created thing, any beautiful thing, any good thing in this world can become idolatry. You can make an idol of a spouse or a child, or a friend. You can make an idol of any good thing that you experience in this world. The desire for rest and refreshment becomes a drive towards self-indulgent laziness. So, you become the sluggard of the Book of Proverbs. Just living for sleep. You can never get enough sleep. That's what the flesh does and I can go on. The flesh takes normal bodily functions and pushes them beyond boundaries that God set up. These are therefore the lusts of the flesh. The Greek word lust has to do with an overpowering desire, magnetic pull consuming your thoughts. The lust of the flesh flow from the mind of the flesh which is described very clearly in Romans 8:5-8. "The mind of the flesh is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so." It's a thinking pattern. Romans chapter 8. Now, the verse says in verse 17, "The lusts of the flesh are set against the desires of the Spirit. The flesh desires or lusts for what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh. These are opposed to each other so that you do not do what you want." The same Greek word is used for desires in reference to both the flesh and the Spirit. Same one. Now, generally the drives or desires of the flesh, we use the word lust. We usually don't use that word for the Spirit. We don't say the Spirit lusts for certain things but it is the same Greek word. Strong desire. So, where the flesh has a strong desire for these sins, the Spirit has a strong desire for the fruit of the Spirit in your life. He yearns for your holiness. He's jealous over you and yearns for your holiness. So there's this strong desire. The Spirit yearns to produce Christ likeness in us in the pattern of the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generous, faithfulness, self control. He yearns to produce those in you. And the flesh hates those things and yearns that they not be in your life. Conversely, the flesh yearns for that list of sins and the Spirit hates them all and is fighting against that list in your life. So, some examples. The Spirit moves in you to pray, it's time to pray. It's time for warfare, you know what I'm talking about. Especially the longer it goes on, alright, you get down on your knees and begin your time of prayer. You start lifting up your hands, you're praying, you're interceding for others. You get the church phone list, please get the phone list, pray for other brothers and sisters in Christ. Pray for each other. Please do that, not just the elders need to do that. Pray for each other. Get the phone list, take a page pray through it. Pray for five people everyday. Just pray though that list. So, you're praying and as it goes on, the flesh starts to rise. Has that ever happened to you? Happens to me all the time. Flesh starts to rise, your mind starts to wander. You start to be anxious about the things you need to get done. Financial pressures start coming in, other issues, temptations start coming in, you're at war. The Spirit wants you to keep praying, wants you to put up the shield of faith. He wants you keep staying on your knees, forget about the pain in your lower back. You older people know what I'm talking about. Not worrying about the fact that you're not getting much circulation to your lower legs. Forget it, shift around a bit, alright but you're at war. "Where the flesh has a strong desire for these sins, the Spirit has a strong desire for the fruit of the Spirit in your life. He yearns for your holiness. He's jealous over you and yearns for your holiness." The Spirit wants us to go on a short-term mission trip. You have the idea of it but then immediately some ideas start flooding in. And you start to be anxious about fundraising. Anxious about the travel, anxious about the weird foods you're going to... Sorry, the multicultural different foods you're going to be eating. And you don't know what is going to happen and you start being anxious and then you don't want to do it. And it's a war. The Spirit wants us to evangelize. You know what a war this is. He's leading you, prompting you to share the gospel with your boss at work. And the flesh doesn't want to do that, and there's this war back and forth. Everything's a struggle. The Spirit wants us to attend church and be active in church life. Use your spiritual gifts, have a ministry. So, simply just going to church can be a war for some people. Just going to church, and you know you want to be there but there's just that desire for maybe a day off, it won't matter... And you're at war. It's going all the time. The Spirit wants us to be generous with our money and give to the church, and give to missions, and give to the poor and needy, and he wants us to do that but the flesh wars against it and stops it. Conversely, the flesh, as I said, has a program for you as well. Read about it in verses 19-21. That's what the flesh wants, and the Spirit hates those things and wants them all dead. So you may ask "Is bitter warfare guaranteed for the rest of my earthly life?", what is the answer? Yes. Absolutely. The only way to escape it is to be taken out of this world by Jesus, either by death or the second coming, that's the only way your warfare will end. It says it right there, "They are in conflict with each other so that you do not do what you want," so you've got to battle. And so as it is, while we live, we will always be deeply conflicted and deeply divided. Look what it says at the very end of verse 17, it says they are in conflict, the flesh and the Spirit are in conflict with each other so that you do not do what you want. So I've just taken that, I'm going to absolutize it. Christians are never wholehearted in anything we do, ever. We don't wholeheartedly serve God, and we don't wholeheartedly sin, ever. It's true. There's something holding you back at every moment when you're serving Jesus. It's like running through waist-high water with a parachute behind you. Or like, for me yesterday on my bike ride, riding for at least 4/5th of that ride though, I was on a circular route, I know I went uphill out and uphill on the way back. And you think "How can that be?" I don't know, but it was, I'm sure of it. The wind was in my face like 80 percent of the time. And I'm very competitive with myself, not with anyone else. Don't any of you really expert riders come and want to take me on. You'll win, I'll lose, I don't care, I don't care. But, I compete against myself with this little bike computer, and I'm thinking "This is pathetic." But I know it's because of the head wind. Every stroke, left right left right is opposed by the head wind, it was a strong wind yesterday. I knew it would be too, because I saw the flag on that Free Will Baptist church at the end of the road right before I turned. Anyway, it was perpendicular, I was like "Oh Lord." So just terrible. And it's in your face. That's what it's going to be like the rest of your life. It will never be easy to serve God, and I don't think it's meant to be. Now occasionally, the sovereign power of the Spirit will come on you and move you to do it, and that'll happen. He'll do that, but generally you're going to just feel that warfare strongly. So you're not going to wholeheartedly serve God, and neither on the other hand are you going to wholeheartedly serve sin. You may be watching a movie you shouldn't be watching, or reading a book you shouldn't be reading, you may be on the phone saying some things, disparaging things, and you know you're wrong, and you're violating your conscience, and you don't feel good about it, and you feel sick, and you want to stop it, and that's you're not whole heartedly serving sin either, ever. So therefore, Christians are schizophrenic and weird in God's universe. We are the weirdest thing there is in the universe, and I'm not joking. Think about it, God is pure light, and in him there's no darkness at all. There's no shifting shadow of change within God, he is one, never second guess himself, he is at one with himself all the time, perfectly one. So also the holy angels, they do nothing but serve God whole heartedly all the time. They delight in anything God wants them to do, so also the glorified saints in heaven are like the angles, praising him all the time. Conversely, Satan is not deeply divided and conflicted within his nature, he hates God and fights against him all the time. He knows what he's about, so also his demons, they're just serving Satan all the time, so also the reprobates, unrepentant serving sin slaves to sin. The rocks and wind and gravity and dirt just do what God made them to do. They're not deeply conflicted. Have you ever seen a deeply conflicted rock? You're the one with the problem, it's not the rock that has the problem. So also animals. The cow chews it's cud, it's not deeply conflicted. Dogs do whatever they do. Cats, I guess squirrels are different. You know when they're crossing in front of you and go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth? And you're just about to kill them and they don't know what direction, they're deeply conflicted. But everyone else, they just do their nature. We're weird, we are weird. We are strange. But thank God it's only temporary, amen? Thank God someday we will be what we want to be. Someday we will be free. Free forever. James put it this way, with the tongue we praise our God and father, and with it we curse men who have been made in his likeness out of the same mouth come praise and cursing, my brothers this should not be. Yes, but it is. Can the same spring produce both fresh water and salt water? You can, in the same 10 minute span, praise God in a very beautiful way and then say something hard about some other person. Could be the next minute. So we're weird, we're schizophrenic, but praise God the deep division is temporary. IV. Understand Your New Status: Not Under Law (verse 18) So therefore, what is the key? Verse 18, understand your new status, we're not under law, but under grace. If you're led by the Spirit, you're not under law. There's a whole new status, and I covered this two weeks ago in the sermon on the law, basically the law as perfect standard: FBI, District Attorney, convicting judge and executioner. Those days are over, amen? The law will not do that for you anymore. The law will not condemn you and send you to Hell. That's what it means, you're not under law. We're in a whole new status. We're now led by The Spirit in a whole new way of life, instructed by The Spirit we understand God's law. Transformed by The Spirit, we delight in God's law. Empowered by the Spirit, we obey God's law. We're not under law now. Instead, we're led by the Spirit. So how can we win? How will we wage war and win, led by the Spirit? What do we do? Look again at Romans 8:13-14. "If you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death, the misdeeds of the body you will live because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God." Now here when I talk about being led, I'm not talking about, I felt led to take this Job, or I felt led to marry this person, I felt led to go on this mission trip. It's not that. It's he's leading you to put sin to death that's the leadership we're talking about here, mortification. V. Wage War God’s Way: Led by the Spirit (verse 18) And so I'm going to lean on John Owen here as I wrap up. You just want to know how am I going to win. John Owen was a 17th century Puritan Theologian, wrote some great things on the mortification of the flesh. Mortification, putting sin to death. He says, "You have a responsibility, if you by the Spirit…" So you have a responsibility. Own your responsibility." And he tells you how you're to do it. "If you through, or by the Spirit, put to death, the deeds of the body, you will live." The outcome is you will live. You'll have eternal life. So Owen says this, "The choices believers who are suredly free from the condemning power of sin, ought to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin." And he said this, "The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depend on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh." Let me say that in simpler language. The health and power and joy and assurance that you want in your Christian life, are directly dependent on how well you put to death sin by the Spirit. Turn it around. The more poorly you put to death the misdeeds of the body, the less power you'll feel in the Christian life, the less joy you'll feel in the Christian life, the less assurance you'll have in the Christian life. You can't sin your way out of the family of God but you can definitely sin your assurance away and you won't know if you're a child of God and you'll be struggling and wondering about it because you've just been giving into sin so much. So you must put it to death. You must mortify. You must make it your daily work. You must be constantly at it while you live and then John Owen said this, "Be killing sin or sin will be killing you." "You can't sin your way out of the family of God but you can definitely sin your assurance away and you won't know if you're a child of God and you'll be struggling and wondering about it because you've just been giving into sin so much. So you must put it to death." Now based on a little illustration used, I've liken it before to a fight with a poisonous snake like a black mamba or something like that right? Walking through the jungle and the snake sees you, and you see the snake, and the snake comes at you and somehow you're quick enough to grab it right around the throat. And it is writhing and moving and hissing and you see its fangs there and you know he wants only one thing and that's to kill you. And you're fighting and struggling and sweat coming down and you're just at war with this snake. You cannot get to the point where you say, "Look, snake. We've had a really good fight haven't we? You and me. We've really had an awesome fight and I respect you. Alright? I don't know if you respect me but we fought well. Now, I'm pretty much done. So I would like to put you back on the path and let you go, and let you go to your snake family and snake home and do whatever you do there in your snake... I'm going to turn around and go back the other way. Okay?" What happens when you let go of that black mamba and turn and walk away. It comes and gets you, it comes to kill you. So it is with sin. Sin wants to kill you. It wants to take everything of value from it. Now it can't kill you eternally, I've already covered that. And you know what, in this life you can't kill it either. You can never say of any sin pattern, I know this, I will never sin in that way again. No way. If any man thinks he stands, what, take heed lest he fall, you got to be on your guard. But what you can do, is you can gradually weaken sin so it doesn't trouble you as much. I'm going to close with a key verse, Romans 6:6. Romans 6:6 says this, "we know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing." That's the key idea there. Rendered increasingly powerless, so that's the strategy I'm giving you for this, for mortification, okay? You can kill temptations, like Shamgar, you can kill them all. But you can't kill the sin that's sending them. Alright? But what you can do is weaken it. The longer you put between yourself and the last time you yield to that sin, the weaker it gets in your life. The longer, the more hours, days, months, years, between you and that sin, the weaker and weaker it gets. And so Romans 6:6 says, that our old self is crucified. The person we were in Adam is dead in order that this sinful body might be increasingly rendered powerless, so that we might no longer be slaves to sin. So here's the strategy, death by starvation, besiege the sin, okay? Cut it off, of its supplies. Cut it off of its food supplies, cut sin off of its water supplies, make it weaker and weaker. How? By resisting the temptations it sends to you. You resist one time, the next time it'll come a little weaker. Resist two times, it'll be even weaker. Resist three, four, five times, it'll be weaker still. And little by little it will not have a grip on you like it used to. Now in order for this to happen, you have to be a Christian. You have to be a Christian. I'm not talking to non Christians. This is a family discussion. If you are here and you have never trusted in Christ, you cannot defeat sin. Your task is to repent and believe in Jesus. Trust in Christ crucified and then you can begin your warfare, but before that all you need to do is trust and repent in him. Now, we're going to go to the Lord's supper. There are so many more things I could say, but this time for us to partake. Now, here is the thing the Lord's supper is a means or avenue of grace in this battle. It is an avenue of grace. If you're a believer in Jesus Christ and you have testified to that by water baptism, you're welcome. If you have not yet been baptized to believe, or you've not testified to that, okay do not come. But if you're a believer and you've testified by water baptism, you are free to come, alright? This meal, this Lord's supper has strength in it, if you feed on it by the Spirit you'll be strengthened for your battle. I'm going to close the sermon in prayer and then I'm going to ask the deacons to come up and we'll partake in the Lord's supper. So Father thank you for the wisdom that comes from your word and fighting this battle. Thank you for the way that you empower us. God I pray for my brothers and sisters that are here. Give them power to fight by the Spirit. And Lord I pray for any that are here that are lost, that they would trust in you and repent and believe for the forgiveness of their sins. And now as we turn to this time we pray that you would send forth your Spirit we need his ministry with us. In Jesus' name, amen.

Few films are more beloved in Christian circles than Chariots of Fire. Todd and Ken ask why this is the case, and whether the film that beat out Raiders of the Lost Ark for an Academy Award has stood the test of time. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 - Intro: Why Do Christians Love this Film? 5:00 - Is it idealized? Shaping a true story. 10:13 - What is the story? 18:03 - Does God care who wins sporting events? 26:30 - Affinity vs. Judgment 30:08 - Better and Worse Than I Remember 34:36 - Tim Tebow, Identity Politics, and Incarnational Christianity 44:45 - Overall impressions and conclusion. DON'T FORGET: You can contact us by emailing thethinplace@filmgeekradio.com. Thanks for listening!

Libby Purves meets actor Jack Lowden; Bobby Teale, a former associate of The Kray twins; Bernard Lynch, an openly gay Roman Catholic priest and sculptor Sophie Dickens. Actor Jack Lowden plays athlete and devout Scottish Christian Eric Liddell in the new stage production of the film 'Chariots of Fire' directed by Edward Hall. The play tells the stories of Liddell and Harold Abrahams who both won gold medals at the 1924 Olympics in Paris. 'Chariots of Fire' is at the Hampstead Theatre in London. Bernard Lynch is an openly gay Roman Catholic priest. Ordained in 1971, he spent two years as a missionary in Zambia before being sent to New York for postgraduate studies. For 15 years he was Theological Consultant to the Board of Directors of Dignity New York -- an organisation for Lesbian, Gay, Transgendered and Bisexual Catholics and their friends. He founded the AIDS/HIV Ministry of Dignity New York in 1982, which continues its work to the present day. In 1998 he married, in the presence of a Catholic priest, his life partner. They had their Civil Partnership in 2007. Last year he was suspended by his order the Society of African Missions because of his comments at the Protest the Pope march in 2010. His book 'If It Wasn't Love, Sex, Death and God' is published by Circle Books. His previous book, 'A Priest On Trial' was published by Bloomsbury. Bobby Teale and his brothers, David and Alfie were part of notorious Kray twins' circle - they were part of the Firm. Bobby was initially drawn to the twins' glamorous world but after he witnessed Ronnie and Reggie becoming more violent, he turned his back on the brothers and became a police informant. Bobby's evidence helped the police convict the Krays. He then fled the country and it wasn't until forty years later that he was reunited with his brothers who'd thought he was dead. Their story is told in 'Bringing Down The Krays', published by Ebury Press. Sophie Dickens is a sculptor who uses muscular movement, the power beneath the skin, to characterise her work. To celebrate athleticism in this Olympic year, she was commissioned to make a judo sculpture by the British Judo Association. She then created a bronze sporting series that includes sequences of athletes in sports such as fencing, weightlifting, wrestling and gymnastics. These make up her solo show at the Sladmore Contemporary Gallery in London. Producer: Paula McGinley.