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Video Blog: Forgiveness

LifeWay has decided to come to the race shop to film the last five topics for Game Plan For Life for their small group study. They did the first six topics for the first part of the GPFL small group study and now they will finish with the final five topics. If you want to get the study, you can do so at any LifeWay store or visit the GPFL website. I recently spoke in Myrtle Beach and then later that day went on to speak at Turbeville Correctional Institution. This is always very rewarding for me. We continue to try to do this–when I speak in a city at a breakfast to later in the day speak again at a prison. A number of you have asked me to come speak in your city in the future but as of right now, we are trying to keep all of our speaking engagements in the southeast. If there’s someone out there in the southeast who would like us to come and speak in your city, you can call Phyllis at 704-944-1559.
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Is Enough Enough?

How much money do we really need? It’s a good question to ask ourselves, because our natural default is to answer, “As much as we can possibly get.” That’s what seems to drive the sports agents and superstars who shoot for such astronomical contracts. It’s why small soft drinks at the movie theater cost $4.75. But is “as much as we can get” a legitimate motto to build our financial lives around?
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The Way We Want

If left entirely up to your legs, back, feet, and side, there would never be a jog that lasted long enough to do you any good. Your brain can envision leaner muscles, better conditioning, greater endurance, and that deep, rich feeling of accomplishment, but your individual body parts don’t care one bit about that. They just want out. They want this over. They want a long squirt of water and a place to sit down.

We have wants like these all the time. We want to eat too much. We want to ogle women. We want to ignore responsibility. We want to tell somebody what we really think of them. And though any of these may start with legitimate needs for nourishment and pleasure and honesty and rest, every time our wants run roughshod over God’s clear teachings for us-his game plan-they become sin.
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Sailing in the Current

Are you happy where you are? Happy with your job and your prospects for growth? Happy with your home life, whether married or single? Happy with the house you live in? Happy with the car you drive? Happy with much of anything right now in terms of where you’d like to be?

When God allowed a Babylonian king to swoop into Israel and cart the Hebrews off into exile, you can be sure they weren’t very happy. They’d lost their homes, lost their security, lost their ties to everything they owned. But as a way of further growing their character and painting their future with promise, God gave his people these instructions: Build houses there. Start a family there. Work for the good of your neighbors there. Make the most of this unwanted season by bearing fruit in an unhappy place.
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