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 Watching this video might be the best 3 minute and 39 second investment you make today...... When people come to the end of their life, they often list the same regrets. Knowing that list ahead of time will help us make better choices   

 Having someone to look up to is not childish, it is necessary! We all need some good examples.    

                When people give me cards or notes of encouragement, I put them in a file folder called “Nice Stuff”.   After many years, that folder is so full that I am scared to take it out of the filing cabinet because it might explode all over my office!   In addition, I have a similar folder on my computer that contains 1270 more notes.                 I never look at what is in the folders.   I do not keep these notes because I am so insecure that I need to be reassured that I am doing well.   I keep the folders not because they say something nice about me, but because they say something nice about other people.   Those folders remind me that, most of the time, people are kind and generous and good.                 1 Corinthians 13:5 tells us that “Love… keeps no record of wrongs”, so I decided to go one step further and k

 The best time to warn someone about a problem is before the problem occurs. That is the intention of this lesson.... to warn us ahead of time so that we are not tripped up.  

 The measure of success is not how you start, but how you finish.  

You will see what you are looking for.... every time!  

 If we listened to Jesus' warning in Luke 12, it would change how we interact with one another.... and we would find blessings we never imagined.  Sermon finished at 32 minutes..... Lord's Table follows that.  

 Happiness does not rise or fall based on what you have. Rather, it is determined by this.....  

We like to thing we are in charge.... that we are running our lives.... that we are making things happen. In the end, most of that is an illusion, but that is okay. Here is why...    

                   When Kevin Kinard was seven years old, his school went on a field trip to Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park.   For the last twenty-six years, he has been going back to the park in search of diamonds.                 It is not a crazy quest.   Since 1906, seventy-five thousand diamonds have been unearthed in the park, but Kevin always came home empty-handed.   That is, until September of last year.                 On Labour Day weekend, Kinard and some friends went back to the park and he picked up anything that looked shiny or interesting.   By the end of the day, he had a bag full of rocks, but nothing that looked like a diamond.   In fact, he was not even going to get them checked.   However, one of his friends thought they might have found something, so Kinard decided to go to the ranger’s

 Too often we underestimate what we have. Sermon ends at 33 minutes..... Lord's table follows  

 Do not let your fear of being wrong keep you from doing what is right  

 When we change our thinking, our situation changes.

 Your new life starts today! Sermon ends at 27 minutes/Lord's table follows