Focus on Your Gifts (2 of 3)
Series: What You Do Best
Tony Thomas
Romans 12:3-7
Ernest Shackleton was a British explorer to Antarctica. On his third expedition disaster struck when his ship, The Endurance, became trapped in pack ice. Over time the ice crushed his ship and they had to drag their lifeboats for hundreds of miles to find open water.
After five days at sea, Shackleton landed his lifeboats at Elephant Island. Fresh water was abundant, but there wasn't enough food to sustain the crew. Shackleton decided to send one lifeboat to a whaling station on Georgia Island, which was seven-hundred and twenty nautical miles away.
Shackleton and five crew members boarded one of the lifeboats, the James Caird, and sailed away. A sextant was used at night to navigate by stars, and fifteen harrowing days later they arrived safely. He organized a rescue party, made four attempts, and four and a half months later his crew was rescued without the loss of a single life.
On his return to England Shackleton was knighted by the queen. He wrote a book about his adventures and today he is still considered one of the Britain's greatest heroes and explorers. And his lifeboat (the James Caird) is still on display at a museum in South London.
In 1922 he organized a return to Antarctica and he placed the follow ad in the newspaper:
''Men wanted for hazardous journey: Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, but honor and recognition in case of success.''
Over ten-thousand applicants responded! Why? Because Ernest Shackleton had the gift of leadership! We're in a short series called What You Do Best. Last week we talked about surrendering ourselves to God. Paul instructs us to offer our bodies, our minds and our wills. Today, Paul suggests that we learn to ''Focus on Our Gifts.''
First Paul says we need to objectively evaluate our gifts. 1 Corinthians 12:1, ''Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I d ...
Series: What You Do Best
Tony Thomas
Romans 12:3-7
Ernest Shackleton was a British explorer to Antarctica. On his third expedition disaster struck when his ship, The Endurance, became trapped in pack ice. Over time the ice crushed his ship and they had to drag their lifeboats for hundreds of miles to find open water.
After five days at sea, Shackleton landed his lifeboats at Elephant Island. Fresh water was abundant, but there wasn't enough food to sustain the crew. Shackleton decided to send one lifeboat to a whaling station on Georgia Island, which was seven-hundred and twenty nautical miles away.
Shackleton and five crew members boarded one of the lifeboats, the James Caird, and sailed away. A sextant was used at night to navigate by stars, and fifteen harrowing days later they arrived safely. He organized a rescue party, made four attempts, and four and a half months later his crew was rescued without the loss of a single life.
On his return to England Shackleton was knighted by the queen. He wrote a book about his adventures and today he is still considered one of the Britain's greatest heroes and explorers. And his lifeboat (the James Caird) is still on display at a museum in South London.
In 1922 he organized a return to Antarctica and he placed the follow ad in the newspaper:
''Men wanted for hazardous journey: Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, but honor and recognition in case of success.''
Over ten-thousand applicants responded! Why? Because Ernest Shackleton had the gift of leadership! We're in a short series called What You Do Best. Last week we talked about surrendering ourselves to God. Paul instructs us to offer our bodies, our minds and our wills. Today, Paul suggests that we learn to ''Focus on Our Gifts.''
First Paul says we need to objectively evaluate our gifts. 1 Corinthians 12:1, ''Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I d ...
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