The journey of faith is rarely a solo trip. The walls of Jericho didn’t fall because of one person’s strength—they fell because God’s people moved together in trust, following God’s strange and specific instructions. As the author of Hebrews reminds us, we travel a well-worn road—a path carved by those who came before us, people who trusted God in the middle of the sea, behind fortress walls, and through long seasons of wandering.

This Sunday, we’ll take a road trip—not just through history, but into the very heart of our faith. We’ll begin with the Israelites stepping onto the dry seabed of the Red Sea (Hebrews 11:29), not because they had control, but because they trusted in the God who makes a way where there is none. We’ll journey past the walls of Jericho (v. 30), where shouts and silence brought down stone. We’ll pass through the lives of Rahab, Gideon, and others—imperfect people with extraordinary faith.

But we won’t stop in the past. Hebrews 12:1–2 brings us into the present moment, urging us to “run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” We are not the first—and we are not alone. We are surrounded by a “great cloud of witnesses” whose stories give us courage and whose faith echoes into our own.

At the front of this long procession of faith stands Jesus—the pioneer and perfecter of our faith—who endured the cross and invites us to fix our eyes on him. In a world that often feels uncertain and isolating, this passage reminds us that the road we walk has been traveled before. We follow in holy footsteps. We run with those who have run before us. And we keep our eyes on Christ, who leads us onward with hope.