This week, we'll be kicking off a new series called "Marathon." We're in this time where summer is over, school has started, and the holidays are still a couple months away. It's a time where things can begin to feel kinda like a drag. And we can start to feel that way about our own faith as well. In between the big events in the life of the church, these ordinary days can feel so very boring and it's easy for us to slip out of our faith into a sense of complacency. And this is where we are reminded that our faith, and life in general, is a marathon, not a sprint. No matter how much we might want to run to the "next big thing" we can't. Things will happen in their time, and we have to find ways to maintain our faith throughout the entire journey, not just at the high points. So, we'll be journeying through Exodus and the people who were heading to the promised land. They, too, were eager to get to their destination and started to get worn down during the time between "the great escape" and the "promised land." What can we learn from what they went through, to help us continue to sustain our faith and not let it slip in the down times?