HOW TO LIVE A G-RATED LIFE IN AN X-RATED WORLD

   How to live a G Rated Life in an X-Rated World

Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard.”  Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

‘Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.’ Psalm 90:12

3 ESSENTIAL CHOICES for a God Rated Life

1.

Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.  Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies. Psalm 119: 97-98

“In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.” Psalm 5:3

2.

“‘Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,’ says the LORD Almighty, ‘and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.'” MALACHI 3:10

“On the first day of every week, set aside some of what you have earned and give it as an offering. The amount depends on how much the Lord has helped you earn.” 1 CORINTHIANS 16:2

3.

Jesus

“He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.” Luke 4:16

The Early Church

“Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts” Acts 2:46

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”  Hebrews 10:23-25

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