The Way of the Warrior

by Erwin Raphael McManus

  65. It’s an approximate number. It will be dependent on the current price of gold.

  66. Matthew 25:24.

  67. See Matthew 25:25.

  68. Cristina Lapenna, “5 Reasons Why Your Watch Stopped Working,” The Long’s Blog, October 19, 2015, https://blog.longsjewelers.com/​watches/​watch-stopped-working; Sunson505, “Why Wrist Watches Stop Working on Some People,” Ieboturkson99 (blog), May 8, 2013, https://ieboturkson99.wordpress.com/​2013/​05/​08/​why-wrist-watches-stop-working-on-some-people/.

  69. Encyclopedia Britannica, s.v. “Special Relativity,” www.britannica.com/​science/​special-relativity; Encyclopedia Britannica, s.v. “Relativity,” by Sidney Perkowitz, www.britannica.com/​science/​relativity.

  70. See Nehemiah 8:10.

  71. James 1:6–8.

  72. Adapted from philosophers John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke, “The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil Is That Good Men Do Nothing,” Quote Investigator, https://quoteinvestigator.com/​2010/​12/​04/​good-men-do/.

  73. Isaiah 40:29–31.

  74. See John 10:10.

  75. See Mark 5:30–31.

  76. See John 5:19, 30.

  77. 2 Corinthians 12:9.

  78. See 2 Corinthians 12:9.

  79. Genesis 1:3.

  80. See Jeremiah 20:9.

  81. James 1:17.

  82. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, trans. Alan R. Clarke (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), 36.

  83. See Acts 17:28.

  84. See James 5:17.

  85. See 1 Kings 18.

  86. See 1 Kings 18:42–44.

  87. See Ezekiel 37:1–14.

  88. John 20:21.

  89. John 20:22.

  90. Genesis 1:3.

  91. Genesis 2:7.

  92. See Matthew 14:28.

  93. See Matthew 14:30.

  94. See John 17:11.

  95. See James 5:17.

  96. Colossians 1:15–20.

  97. Hebrews 11:6.

  98. See Hebrews 11:1.

  99. Hebrews 11:3.

  100. This story is also in my book The Barbarian Way: Unleash the Untamed Faith Within (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2005), 72–77. Used with permission of Thomas Nelson, www.thomasnelson.com.

  101. Genesis 5:24.

  102. Ecclesiastes 3:11.

  103. Matthew 16:19; 18:18.

  104. See 1 Kings 18.

  105. 1 Kings 18:27.

  106. 1 Kings 18:39.

  107. See 1 Kings 19:2.

  108. 1 Kings 19:3.

  109. 1 Kings 19:4–5.

  110. 1 Kings 19:7.

  111. Genesis 3:9.

  112. 1 Kings 19:9.

  113. 1 Kings 19:10.

  114. 1 Kings 19:11–12.

  115. 1 Kings 19:12, KJV.

  116. See 1 Kings 19:13.

  117. 2 Samuel 11:1.

  118. Matthew 26:38.

  119. See 2 Corinthians 12:7–10.