HOW TO MAKE LIFE COUNT (10 OF 13)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: James 4:13-17
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How to Make Life Count (10 of 13)
Series: Balance: A Study of the Book of James
Scott Maze
James 4:13-17
Two friends John and Dave were two huge baseball fans. Their entire lives, John and Dave talked baseball. They went to sixty games a year. They even agreed that whoever died first would try to come back and tell the other if there was baseball in heaven. One night, John passed away in his sleep after watching the Atlanta Braves' victory earlier in the evening. He died happy. A few nights later, his buddy Dave awoke to the sound of John's voice from beyond the grave. ''John is that you?'' Dave asked. ''Yes, it's me,'' John replied. ''This is unbelievable,'' Dave exclaimed. ''So tell me, I need to know. Is there baseball in heaven?'' ''Well, I have some good news and some bad news for you. Which do you want to hear first?'' ''Tell me the good news first.'' ''The good news is that yes, there is baseball in heaven.'' ''Oh, that is wonderful, So what is the bad news?'' ''You're pitching tomorrow night.''
This morning I want to talk to you about, ''How to Make Your Life Count.'' So much of our lives, deal with our assumptions about the future. Allow me to give you a few examples of individuals who were overly confident about future events. ''They couldn't hit an elephant from that distance.'' These were the last words of Civil War general John Sedgewick, immediately before a bullet hit him just below his left eye. From the field of medicine - ''Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction'' - Pierre Pasche, Professor of Physiology at Teleuths in 1872. Regarding inventions - ''Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to find oil? You're crazy!'' That's what the driller said to Edmund L. Drake before he drilled the first successful oil well in 1859. ''The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. It is inherently of no value to us.'' Western Union internal memo in 1876: ''Airplanes are interestin ...
Series: Balance: A Study of the Book of James
Scott Maze
James 4:13-17
Two friends John and Dave were two huge baseball fans. Their entire lives, John and Dave talked baseball. They went to sixty games a year. They even agreed that whoever died first would try to come back and tell the other if there was baseball in heaven. One night, John passed away in his sleep after watching the Atlanta Braves' victory earlier in the evening. He died happy. A few nights later, his buddy Dave awoke to the sound of John's voice from beyond the grave. ''John is that you?'' Dave asked. ''Yes, it's me,'' John replied. ''This is unbelievable,'' Dave exclaimed. ''So tell me, I need to know. Is there baseball in heaven?'' ''Well, I have some good news and some bad news for you. Which do you want to hear first?'' ''Tell me the good news first.'' ''The good news is that yes, there is baseball in heaven.'' ''Oh, that is wonderful, So what is the bad news?'' ''You're pitching tomorrow night.''
This morning I want to talk to you about, ''How to Make Your Life Count.'' So much of our lives, deal with our assumptions about the future. Allow me to give you a few examples of individuals who were overly confident about future events. ''They couldn't hit an elephant from that distance.'' These were the last words of Civil War general John Sedgewick, immediately before a bullet hit him just below his left eye. From the field of medicine - ''Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction'' - Pierre Pasche, Professor of Physiology at Teleuths in 1872. Regarding inventions - ''Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to find oil? You're crazy!'' That's what the driller said to Edmund L. Drake before he drilled the first successful oil well in 1859. ''The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. It is inherently of no value to us.'' Western Union internal memo in 1876: ''Airplanes are interestin ...
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