2. Standing Tall in the Crucible of Finishing Well! Pastor David Leppard, Trinity Alliance Church

3. Unique, “slow burn” crucibles peculiar to the “stretch run” of life… Giving Up… Regrets Indulging Ourselves…

4. Dropping Out… Stagnation… The Great Challenge of the stretch run – Finishing Well!

5. Big Idea: With God’s gracious help, we need to stand tall in the “slow burn crucibles” that come to us later in life so that we can finish well!

6. Joseph finished well! Many people who exercised living faith finished well. Making the most of our Kairos

7. One more who finished well… Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

8. Hebrews 12:2 2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.