Throughout Scripture, believers face adversity with remarkable courage. The apostles endured persecution, imprisonment and death for spreading the gospel, and kept expanding the kingdom of God while rejoicing in the suffering.

How can believers show the same courage now? Joe Rigney examines the virtue of fortitude theologically and traces it to the gospel rather than to temperament, arguing that courage is produced in a Christian by what he believes about God. Short, bracing, and aimed at a church more often tempted to caution than to recklessness.