Sermon: Greater Purpose? (5)
Series: A Change Of Heart
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Matthew 16:24-26
A man named William Barclay once observed that "There are two great days in a person's life. The day we are born and the day we discover WHY."
Hmmm. the day we discover WHY we were born! Well, that's interesting. Lots of people never even consider why they were born. I mean, they kind of drift through life without a purpose or goal.
ILLUS: But there was a man who did set a goal for his life. One man who refused to "drift through life. His name was Douglas Engelbart, and back in 1950, he was driving to his job at the Ames Research Center (which later became NASA). Just the day before, he'd asked his fiancée to marry him, and as he was driving along, a realization struck him: his dream of "getting married and living happily ever after was the last of my goals." (Pause) Now, being a 25-year-old engineer, he decided to calculate how many minutes of working life he had left in him, and came up with about 5 1/2 million minutes. And he decided to use those minutes to do something valuable in his life. And he did - he reshaped the entire computer industry. He became the inventor of the computer mouse, the Word Processor and the concept of "Windows". His creative genius made it possible to use computers as we do today, all because he refused to just "get by" with his life. He had 5 ½ million minutes to do something with... and he made them count.
In our text today, we have Jesus telling us that WE can make our lives count! "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?"
What Jesus was saying is this: I'm going to give you a purpose; a reason to live; a reason to get up in the morning. But ...
Series: A Change Of Heart
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Matthew 16:24-26
A man named William Barclay once observed that "There are two great days in a person's life. The day we are born and the day we discover WHY."
Hmmm. the day we discover WHY we were born! Well, that's interesting. Lots of people never even consider why they were born. I mean, they kind of drift through life without a purpose or goal.
ILLUS: But there was a man who did set a goal for his life. One man who refused to "drift through life. His name was Douglas Engelbart, and back in 1950, he was driving to his job at the Ames Research Center (which later became NASA). Just the day before, he'd asked his fiancée to marry him, and as he was driving along, a realization struck him: his dream of "getting married and living happily ever after was the last of my goals." (Pause) Now, being a 25-year-old engineer, he decided to calculate how many minutes of working life he had left in him, and came up with about 5 1/2 million minutes. And he decided to use those minutes to do something valuable in his life. And he did - he reshaped the entire computer industry. He became the inventor of the computer mouse, the Word Processor and the concept of "Windows". His creative genius made it possible to use computers as we do today, all because he refused to just "get by" with his life. He had 5 ½ million minutes to do something with... and he made them count.
In our text today, we have Jesus telling us that WE can make our lives count! "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?"
What Jesus was saying is this: I'm going to give you a purpose; a reason to live; a reason to get up in the morning. But ...
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