Die With Your Boots On

This is a good, quick overview of how the apostles died: Die With Your Boots On | TheResurgence:

You're either going to go out like Judas or Jesus—that's how your life is going to end. You're going to go out like Jesus, faithful to the end, whatever the cost, or you're going to go out like Judas, prematurely, tragically, rebelliously, shamefully.

If you were going to get crucified, would you stop calling yourself a Christian?... Andrew replied, [and this is an amazing line] "I would not have preached the honor and glory of the cross if I feared the death of the cross."

We're in a day where we get a lot of come-and-see. There are free sermons on the Internet, classes, training, Christian music, radio stations, radio preachers, church events, mass crusades, services, small groups. It seems, Lord God, like there are more come-and-see opportunities than any people have ever been offered in the history of the world.... [But] I pray for the grace of the Holy Spirit on us as a people that we wouldn't just be a come-and-see people, that we'd be a go-and-die people.