Burning Strength Homilies

  I think just about all of us have seen one of those movies with a riveting motivational speech Most of the time you’ll see them in movies that have battlefields of sorts – whether it be an action adventure movie with a climatic battle, a sports movie, or even a movie about social change where the team or person we’re rooting for seems to be down and out. One of the main characters will step in front of the troops He or she will speak about the reality of the situation they are dealing with – But despite the odds, they owe it to themselves and to the people that they love to give it all they’ve got We’d be kidding ourselves to think that these speeches are a modern phenomenon As a matter of fact, we can find them in the earliest forms of written language And we can even find a number of them in scripture – They are prophetic voices to help God’s people remember that they are the children of the God who made the universe, and still loves them so deeply &nb