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from the enemy A sermon on Revelation 21 & 22 : I remember in college when I was going through some tough times. My pastor noticed what my real problem was. And it wasn’t my circumstances. It was how I was trying to fix them. “All your old survival skills aren’t going to serve you anymore .” He said. “You’re going to have to learn some new one.”   And he was right. Everything I was doing to try and fix my situation was only making it worse . You ever been there? Those disorienting times when all your old skills don’t work anymore. When they only make everything worse . We all have.   In fact, it’s a part of a pattern called “the hero journey.” And even if you don’t know the formula, you are familiar with it. It’s been made famous by George Lucas and the Star Wars films.   In the hero’s journey the hero is thrust into some circumstance where they must adapt to new surroundings in order to survive. And it’s like that for us when we go through some life-alterin...

won't be another exit for days Final sermon on the book of Revelation, Revelation 21 & 22: So let me ask you a question, “ what’s going to determine your future?” …Sure, plenty of you are well into your retirement, and maybe you think you don’t have to wrestle with questions like that anymore.  But don’t fool yourselves. And just take a lesson from Courtney, or ___________________. They have no illusions, they know they have to wrestle with this question every day… So, “who's going to determine your future?” Recently I finished up this show called “Legion.” It’s a superhero story, from the X-men, I guess. Typically that kind of show would hold little interest for me; but the creator of Fargo was involved with Legion. So I watched it. It’s about this guy, David. And David’s whole life, he’s been told he’s schizophrenic.  See, David thinks he can control things with his mind; and of course that’s crazy. So he meets with doctors, is prescrib...