“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
DEUTERONOMY 5-7
9Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. 10But
those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction;
he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.
11Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.(7:9-11)
9Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. 10But
those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction;
he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.
MARK 12:1-27
12Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.
1Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. 2At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. 3But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 4Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully. 5He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed.
6“He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
7“But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 8So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.
9“What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others. 10Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture:
“ ‘The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
11the Lord has done this,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’a ?”
JOURNAL
I remember the day as if it was yesterday. Samford University matt drills...it was my first semester after transferring from Juco to play football. It was the second week and I had already missed one matt drill from oversleeping. I had stayed up late studying and forgot to turn the volume up on my alarm. All of a sudden I woke up at 5:50 am and we had to be there at 5:50 with matt drills starting at 6:00. Shere panic and terror, I can recall the pit in my stomach even now. I sped across campus and got there just as it was starting. I tried to sneak in and get in the stretching line. Of course there was no sneaking in...my attempt was greeted with muffled snickers and laughs. I had blown it...I knew it and later in the day I received the most severe tongue lashing of my life by my QB coach ( Jimbo Fisher ). He told me that if I was ever late again he would convert me to Tight End and my Quarterback days would be over.
Fortunately I got the message...for the the next 2 years I was obnoxiously early to any meeting, practice, gathering etc. In fact I became so paranoid about being on time that I would consistently wake up several times a night in sheer panic that I had overslept.
It's really interesting to look back on times like this and see the impact of an experience. For me it made an impression that has stayed with me for the last 27 years. A few years ago Jimbo was speaking at the Quarterback Club here in Birmingham, a friend of mine invited me to attend and I was able to take my oldest son. He joked with me about those days as if it had just happened.
God has created us to learn from experiences and that's why it was so important that Jesus himself came and lived and died.He doesn't just give us empty commands...he gets it, he understands and therefore can be trusted for his words, his stories and his experiences.
I remember the day as if it was yesterday. Samford University matt drills...it was my first semester after transferring from Juco to play football. It was the second week and I had already missed one matt drill from oversleeping. I had stayed up late studying and forgot to turn the volume up on my alarm. All of a sudden I woke up at 5:50 am and we had to be there at 5:50 with matt drills starting at 6:00. Shere panic and terror, I can recall the pit in my stomach even now. I sped across campus and got there just as it was starting. I tried to sneak in and get in the stretching line. Of course there was no sneaking in...my attempt was greeted with muffled snickers and laughs. I had blown it...I knew it and later in the day I received the most severe tongue lashing of my life by my QB coach ( Jimbo Fisher ). He told me that if I was ever late again he would convert me to Tight End and my Quarterback days would be over.
Fortunately I got the message...for the the next 2 years I was obnoxiously early to any meeting, practice, gathering etc. In fact I became so paranoid about being on time that I would consistently wake up several times a night in sheer panic that I had overslept.
It's really interesting to look back on times like this and see the impact of an experience. For me it made an impression that has stayed with me for the last 27 years. A few years ago Jimbo was speaking at the Quarterback Club here in Birmingham, a friend of mine invited me to attend and I was able to take my oldest son. He joked with me about those days as if it had just happened.
God has created us to learn from experiences and that's why it was so important that Jesus himself came and lived and died.He doesn't just give us empty commands...he gets it, he understands and therefore can be trusted for his words, his stories and his experiences.
Fortunately I got the message...for the the next 2 years I was obnoxiously early to any meeting, practice, gathering etc. In fact I became so paranoid about being on time that I would consistently wake up several times a night in sheer panic that I had overslept.
It's really interesting to look back on times like this and see the impact of an experience. For me it made an impression that has stayed with me for the last 27 years. A few years ago Jimbo was speaking at the Quarterback Club here in Birmingham, a friend of mine invited me to attend and I was able to take my oldest son. He joked with me about those days as if it had just happened.
God has created us to learn from experiences and that's why it was so important that Jesus himself came and lived and died.He doesn't just give us empty commands...he gets it, he understands and therefore can be trusted for his words, his stories and his experiences.
54When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!”
MATTHEW 27:54
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