Achievement

Living on Top of the World

Rachel Chimits

Greatness in achievement and position is something that our culture idolizes, but how does Christianity support or contradict that goal?

The Battle of Thermopylae is one of the best Western examples of ultra-macho greatness. In it, 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians held the pass against a Persian force that historians believe numbered between 100,000 and 150,000 strong.