“You can Fail and not be a Failure.”

“You can Fail and not be a Failure.” This important principle is illustrated by the story of Daniel Ruettiger or “Rudy.” In addition to the information the film provides you can read about Rudy in John Maxwell’s book Failing Forward or Rudy Ruettiger’s book Rudy’s RulesHere is how Maxwell tells the story: “Rudy” desperately wanted to play football for Notre Dame. You may have seen the film based on his life called Rudy. It was a good movie, but his real story is even more remarkable and compelling.

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The importance of meditating on God's Word

How can our reading and studying of God’s Word take us by the hand and lead us into the presence of God? How can our study of God’s Word actually be a means of grace as it was in Paul’s life (Acts 20:32)? One answer is the meditation of God’s Word. It is easy for us who are bombarded with information not to meditate or process all the input to which we are exposed. We are inundated with news from our car radios, emails at work, texts and tweets from friends, website surfing, and podcasts and TV in the evenings, and endless cell phone calls.

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Don’t Waste Your Life (Psalm 127)

Solomon in the only Pilgrim Psalm (Psalm 127) he wrote, challenged us three times in two verses, not to live a “vain” or empty, worthless, or wasted life. John Piper wrote a book entitled Don’t Waste Your Life. In chapter three, he wrote of two women who some might consider to have wasted their lives. In April 2000, Ruby Eliason and Laura Edwards were killed in Cameroon, West Africa. Ruby was over eighty. Single all her life, she poured it out for one great thing: to make Jesus Christ known among the unreached, the poor, and the sick. Laura was a widow, a medical doctor, pushing eighty years old, and serving at Ruby’s side in Cameroon. The brakes failed, the car went over a cliff, and they were both killed instantly…. Was that a tragedy?

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A Biblical Goal for 2021

What day of the year are more goals set than any other day of the year? This coming Friday or New Year’s Day. Michael Hyatt in a video series called 5 Days to Your Best Year Ever says that traditional goal setting doesn’t work. He backs up this statement with these facts:

1. 95% of those who lose weight on a diet plan regain it and some gain more than they originally lost.

2. 25% of people abandon their New Year’s resolution after one week and 60% after six months.

3. The average person makes the same New Year’s resolution 10 times in a row without success.

I read about a recent medical study that reported nearly 600,000 people undergo heart bypass surgery each year in America. Because the procedure is a temporary fix, afterwards patients must make lifestyle changes by eating healthier, quitting smoking, exercising, reducing their stress. It becomes a life or death issue! But the study revealed a shocking result. Ninety percent of heart patients don’t change. They continue the same path prior to their surgery. They know change is important and consequences are life-threatening, but they stay the same
(Reginaldi, Paul; Dodson, Amanda (2013-08-20). Revitalized Church, How To Leave A Legacy Church (Kindle Locations 1316-1322).

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A Biblical Goal for 2018

What day of the year are more goals set than any other day of the year? This coming Monday or New Year’s Day. Michael Hyatt in a video series called 5 Days to Your Best Year Ever says that traditional goal setting doesn’t work. He backs up this statement with these facts:

1. 95% of those who lose weight on a diet plan regain it and some gain more than they originally lost.

2. 25% of people abandon their New Year’s resolution after one week and 60% after six months.

3. The average person makes the same New Year’s resolution 10 times in a row without success.

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