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At a Leadership Summit, a few years ago, Angela Duckworth laid out her research that suggests that every successful person, every person who makes a true impact on the world, has one unique charecteristic. She called it grit. And she defined grit as the child of passion and persistance. Persistance and passion together equals grit. So let me ask you, "Are you passionately persistant in prayer?" Or am I distracted, living with the illusion that I am a great multi-tasker, while my prayer have neither passion nor persistance.

So that's the question for this episode. Are you a gritty pray-er?

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In this episode we are going to hear the words from Jesus, "As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you." With all my heart I believe that that message was not just made for a handful of people who saw the risen Jesus, it's for each of us. As the Father sent Jesus, Jesus is sending us. Think of all that entailed, all that was involved in Jesus' sending.

What if in the same way, for the same purpose, Jesus has sent you? Coming out of the Easter season, coming at the end of the gospel of John, there's an awful lot to that simple statement. What if He sent you?

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We think of tombs as endings, final pages of the story. But for God every tomb is a transition. Think of the amazing global transition that started in Jesus' tomb. God reset the world and life will never be the same. What if the Easter tombstone is really your stepping stone? You know what a stepping stone is right? A stepping stone is something we need to go to a place we could never reach on our own. What if the trouble you're facing; the doubt, the darkness, the difficulty; what if the tomb is not your final resting place, it's the porch you have to walk across to go home. What if it's not a locked door, it's the key.

What if your tombstone is actually a stepping stone to something so good, you can barely imagine it?