LentGoing Deeper in a Superficial World

We are the risk takers, the change makers,the Adventurers of life!

How to Wreck Your Life

Don’t look for shortcuts to God. The market is flooded with surefire, easy formulas for a successful life that can be

practiced in your spare time.

“Our greatest fear in life should not be FAILURE,

but SUCCEEDING at things in life that don’t really matter.

Francis Chan

Stupid means you make the same mistake over and over.

Smart means you learn from your mistakes and

Genius means you learn from other peoples’ mistakes.

So this is the end of the matter; all has been heard. Worship God and keep God’s

commandments because this is what everyone must do. Eccl 12:13

Finding yourself in him!Let his love define you!Let his ways excite you!Let his presence fill you!

It one thing to know what to do…It is another to do it...

The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher“Utterly meaningless! Everything is MEANINGLESS.”

Eccl 1:1-2

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:5-6

First Easy Way to Wreck your Life…Let PLEASURE guide you

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be MEANINGLESS.” Eccl 2:1

King Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless …” 1 Kings 11

He had 700 wives of royal birth and 300 concubines, and his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been. 1 Kings 11

 Laughing and having fun is crazy.What good does it do? Eccl 2:2

‘Sometimes I feel I’m living a meaningless life,” Shia LaBeouf says, “and I get frightened.” “I know I’m one of the luckiest dudes in America right now,” LaBeouf says. “I have a great house. My parents don’t have to work. I’ve got money. I’m famous. But it could all change, man. It could go away. You never know.”

Shia LaBeoufParade Magazine

“I don’t handle fame well,” LaBeouf says. “Most actors on most days don’t think they’re worthy. I have no idea where this insecurity comes from, but it’s a God-sized hole. If I knew, I’d fill it, and I’d be on my way.” JUNE 14, 2009

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in Thee.

St. Augustine

 And I said of frivolous fun, “They are only senseless ideas”; and regarding selfish pleasure, “What purpose is this?” 2:2

 I investigated how to cheer up my body with WINE, while my heart was still guiding me with

wisdom, in order to grasp folly until I might experience what is good for sons of men to do under heaven during the number of days that

they might have life.

  I did great things. I built houses for myself. I planted grape-fields for myself. I made gardens and beautiful

places for myself, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. I made pools of water for myself from which to

water many new trees.4-6

  I bought men and women servants, and had other servants who were born in my house. I had more flocks and cattle than

anyone before me in Jerusalem. I gathered for myself silver and gold and the riches of kings and lands. I got for myself

male and female singers, and kept many women who acted as my wives, the joy of man.

  I bought men and women servants, and had other servants who were born in my house. I had more flocks and cattle than

anyone before me in Jerusalem. I gathered for myself silver and gold and the riches of kings and lands. I got for myself

male and female singers, and kept many women who acted as my wives, the joy of man.

I had just had the best season of my career. Everything I touched turned to gold. But inside, I was broken and totally defeated. I remember sitting at the back of the practice field one afternoon, away from everybody, and tears were running down my face. I was saying to myself, "This is so meaningless. I'm so unhappy.

“We're winning every week and I'm playing great, but I'm not happy.”

I tried everything. Parties, women, buying expensive jewelry and gadgets, and nothing helped. There was no peace. I had everything the world has to offer, but no peace, no joy, just emptiness inside.

“None of my success on the field could prepare me for the crisis in my life that led to my suicide attempt. When I took that deadly plunge, I had reached the end of my rope. I was struggling with just about everything in my life.

Then God started to send people into my life to share the truth with me--friends, former teammates, pastors, my attorney.” Dion Sanders

I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me. I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil.

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

Doesn’t apply to me!

I can manage just fine

I’m not as bad as…

If only…

“When ______ happens,then I will have a life.”

“When we are pursuing the things that don’t have the power to make us happy,

we are ignoring the ones that do.” Henry Cloud

Happy people don’t chase after happiness,They chase after God and happiness finds them

Chasing the Wind…

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the

courage to do what's right - EVEN WHEN IT'S HARD.