a life worth living. 80 years 29, 200 days 700,800 hours 42+ million minutes 233,000 “self-...

A Life Worth Living

80 Years29, 200 Days

700,800 Hours

42+ millionminutes

233,000 “self-

determined” hours

“When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. We yearn for tomorrow and the

progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday,

for what was or might have been. But as we are yearning,

the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but

our yearning for second chances.”

A Life Worth Living:A Promise of Powerful Living in ChristA Glorious ministry

2 Corinthians 3:7-18

Glorious – Powerful; displays the character of God

1) Glorious 2) a great hope 3) we are very bold 4) we are

being transformed into Christ’s likeness in ever

increasing glory.

1) Glorious 2) a great hope 3) we are very bold 4) we are being transformed into Christ’s likeness in ever

increasing glory.

1) Glorious 2) a great hope 3) we are very bold 4) we are being transformed into Christ’s likeness in ever

increasing glory.

Does this describe you?

More than conquerorsRomans 8:28-39

1) God works out all things for your good v.28

2) God is “on our side” v. 31

3) No charge of condemnation v.33

4) Nothing can separate us from his love v.35,39

5) We are more than conquerors v. 37

1) God works out all things for your good v.282) God is “on our side” v. 31

3) No charge of condemnation v.33

4) Nothing can separate us from his love v.35,395) We are more than conquerors v. 37

Does this describe you?

~ Life of dullness ~ Despair and fear ~ Feeble effort

~ Failing miserably ~ Conquered ~ Hardly anything

works out~ God who is angry

with us and barely likes us?

~ Lasting glory ~ Hope and boldness, ~ Transformed ~ More than conquerors ~ Works out for our good ~ God on our side ~ Never be separated

The Ping Pong Christian Life

The Ping Pong Christian Life

RevivalRevival is an invasion from heaven that brings a conscious awareness of God

Renew

A life of renewal instead of a search for revival

Renewal is taking what God has given you and putting it into

practice.Your “newness” is a gift and a reality from God.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has

come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through

Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation 2 Cor. 5:17,18

A life of renewal instead of a search for revival

Into Christ = New Life

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into

death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the

dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new

life.Romans 6:4

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is

being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your

minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in

true righteousness and holiness.

Eph. 4:22-24

Made New = Responsibility in Renewal

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what

God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:2

Made New = Responsibility in Renewal

Laziness: your greatest hindrance to

renewal

The responsibility of renewal lies directly in the lap of each

individual Christian. God has already “done

something” in fact, has done everything

needed for renewal.Definition of renewal: A person full of Jesus

As long as you drink from the

water of life you hardly

think of your need. When you stop drinking from him the

need for renewal becomes critical.

Renewal is like thirst. As long as you stay hydrated you never

really think of the need for water.

Jesus stood and said in a

loud voice, “If anyone is

thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever

believes in me, as the

Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”

John 7:37