sunday's scuds (september 21, 2008)

What an amazing start to the new series, One Month To Live. The band kicked things off with Tim McGraw's Live Like You Were Dying. They nailed it. And most of the people in the room were singing right along with it. Dwight's first message in this series was titled Living the Dash. It was an overview to where we're heading over the next six weeks. And it was full of scuds. Here are a few:

• None of us know how old we are. If you're 23 but you're going to die when you're 28, you're an old person. If you're 70 and you're going to die when you're 95, you're young. The reality is that none of us know how much time we have left.
• What God would say to each of us, in light of the fact that we're all going to die, is, "You need to prepare for that."
• You can't change the past but you can do something about your future.
• Everybody dies but not everybody lives.
• God calls us to live lives that are full of passion. What are you passionate about? Are you passionate about anything significant?
• We're more concerned with counting our years than we are with making our years count.
• When you have a purpose bigger than your problems it enables you to live passionately.
• My wife is a righteous fox. (Yes, he really said that!!)
• You don't have what it takes to love your spouse...because it requires a supernatural kind of love.
• Jesus learned obedience through suffering.
• Too many of us, when we suffer, we don't learn anything from it. Instead we end up being rebellious, or bitter, or both.

If you want to live life to the fullest, there are four things we must give God:

1. The first day of the week.
2. The first part of my day.
3. The first portion of my income.
4. The first consideration of every decision.