Sermon Resources:
1. hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - the fear of long words
2. “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. 'He that will lose his life, the same shall save it,' is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. This paradox is the whole principle of courage - a man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice. He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.” -G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
3. “True courage is facing your heart’s greatest nightmare and doing the right thing anyway.” -Tim Keller, Sermon on Jan. 25, 2004
4. Bob Newhart - STOP IT sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvujypVVBAY
5. “The thematic purpose of this exceptional attention to physical detail is obvious. Goliath moves into the action like a man of iron and bronze, an almost grotesquely quantitative embodiment of a hero, a hulking monument to an obtusely mechanical conception of what constitutes power and courage.” -Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative
6. “The intent of the encounter is to make clear yet again that Yahweh “saves,” not with the conventions of human warfare but in Yahweh’s own inscrutable ways.” -Walter Brueggemann, Interpretation Commentary
7. “That suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage...that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed.” -Ivan Karamasov, The Brothers Karamazov
