... how often fear is mentioned in Scripture. There is a reason for that. Fear is the biggest obstacle we face. Many bad attitudes can be explained by fear. A few years ago a book was published that described a different kind of mountaintop experience. It was Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air. It was his description of a disastrous expedition he was part of up Mount Everest. Mount Everest is the highest point on earth, rising 29,029 feet above sea level. Hundreds of people have died trying to scale its slopes ...
... show for the people who were under their care. The poor widow had only an audience of one—but that audience of one was more important than all the people packed in all the religious temples of the world combined . . . for his name was . . . 1. Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air (New York: Villard, 1997), pp. 185-186. Rev. J.C. Austin (http://www.mapc.com/html/07_sermons/sermondisplay.asp?sermonDate=8/15/2004&sermonTime=100#). 2. “The Greatest Soccer Player Who Never Was” by Dan Lewis, Now I Know! October, 15 ...
... equally zealous Jews stoned to death a young preacher named Stephen. By his own standards, Paul was very successful in achieving his goals. But what does it mean if you are very successful at achieving the wrong goals? You’ve heard me mention the name Jon Krakauer before. Jon is a mountain climber and best-selling author of books about his climbing adventures. In his book Into Thin Air, he writes of the day in May, 1996 when he finally reached the summit of Mt. Everest. A number of his fellow climbers had ...
... is also the child that guides us. In May of 1996 one of the greatest tragedies in mountain-climbing history took place on the slopes of Mt. Everest. In a quest to stand on the top of that 29,028 ft. summit, twelve climbers lost their lives. Jon Krakauer wrote about this in his best-selling book, Into Thin Air. On their final climb to the top, several climbers violated clear instructions not to be on the summit after 2:00PM. This delay caused the entire group to remain in a dangerous sector of the mountain ...
