Hero - Scott Weatherford

Riches won’t help on the Day of Judgment,

but right living can save you from death.

Proverbs 11:4

We are enamored with heroes. It seems that we vault anyone to hero status if there is any act or position that warrants such delineation. We make sports figures, actors, or other icons of entertainment into heroes even if their actions or core beliefs prove otherwise. We rightfully declare soldiers, policemen, firefighters, and other emergency service providers as heroes. To most of us our first heroes are our teachers. I can still remember the “Boston” accent of my first-grade teacher.

We are a people who long for a model of self-sacrifice, devotion, supernatural performance, or anything out of the ordinary. We are a culture of faster, more powerful, and able to leap tall buildings kind of stuff. We are looking for heroes...