Write Your Own Headlines
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WE EXIST TO HELP PEOPLE KNOW JESUS AND FIND PURPOSE
1 Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. 2 Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. 3 For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.
OUR WORLD IS DOMINATED BY HEADLINES — LAST TWO YEARS
RONA — STAY @ HOME — GLOBAL TP SHORTAGE
SOOO NEGATIVE — I HAVE A SOLUTION — NOT ALL HEADLINES ARE TRUE
FUNNY NOT TRUE HEADLINES — CHINA SUBS — HOSPITAL DOCTORS — TITANIC — DEWEY WINS
WRITE YOUR OWN HEADLINES
YOU CANT ALWAYS CHANGE YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE
With God’s help we can always change our perspective — There are so many examples in the Bible — MOSES SENDS MEN TO CANAN — ASKS THEM TO BRING BACK REPORT — TWO DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES COME BACK — ONE POSITIVE ONE NEGATIVE
RICH — MILK AND HONEY — PERFECT FOR US
THE OTHERS COME BACK NEGATIVE
32 So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge.
APOSLE PAUL Changed by Jesus in Radical Way — HE NEEDED TO GET TO ROME — He didn’t get to preach he was arrested — They were deciding whether or not to behead him
IF YOU ARE A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST YOUR LIFE IS NOT DECIDED BY SOMEONE ELSES HEADLINE
COGNITIVE REFRAMING — Shifting your mindset to look at a situation or a relationship from a positive perspective
NOT — WHAT I DON’T HAVE… BUT WHAT CAN I DO WITH WHAT I DO HAVE
GOD NEEDS TO DETERMINE THE MEANING OF OUR SITUATION
THE APOSTLE PAUL DIDN’T BUY INTO THE NEGATIVE HEADLINES
12 And I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News. 13 For everyone here, including the whole palace guard, knows that I am in chains because of Christ. 14 And because of my imprisonment, most of the believers here have gained confidence and boldly speak God’s message without fear.
ROMAN PLAN BACKFIRES — REACHING THE WHOLE JAIL
PASTOR STORY — MARRIAGE FALLING APART — FINANCES IN SHAMBLES — DOUBTING GOD — So your wife divorced you and not speaking? — so you’ve lost your job and unable to work? — So no faith in God at all? — FROM WHERE IM SITTING I SEE OPPORTUNITIES — Marriage with potential — still a job — and a christian who still has a God
YOU GOTTA CHANGE THE HEADLINES! LOOK FOR THE GOOD THINGS!
MOM — TALK IN SCHOOL — WRITING A DIFFERENT HEADLINE
MRS GREGORY WRITING A DIFFERENT HEADLINE
DAD WRITING A DIFFERENT HEADLINE
WRITE YOUR OWN HEADLINE
TEEN BEATS ADDICTION — HURTING WOMAN FINALLY CRIES OUT TO GOD — CHURCH MEMBER SAYS YES TO SERVING — NEIGHBOR TAKES STEP OF FAITH, FRIEND COMES TO KNOW JESUS
8 We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. 9 We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.
16 That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.
18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.
DAD ALWAYS SAID “I’VE DONE TOO MUCH” — BUT EVENTUALLY HE SAW A DIFFERENT HEADLINE “GOD HAS FORGIVEN SO MUCH”