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Are you living your life well?

Know as you get older, you understand that verse that says we live our lives like a story that's

been told. What story is your life telling? We see people who are closely with the Lord and are

on fire for him through thick and thin. How can we enjoy that kind of abundant life? Today on a new

beginning, Pastor Greg Lorry has the answer. Get your goals right and let your passion be for Jesus.

We run an inspiring journey through the book of Acts, here on a new beginning.

Pastor Greg Lorry is helping us learn from our spiritual forefathers and see how the acts of the

apostles show us how to live more rewarding lives here and now, 20 centuries later. Today,

in a message called a life well lived, Pastor Greg helps us consider the story of a young man

in Acts chapter 7 that said a strong example for other believers to follow. It was an inspiring life

right up to the very end. A young man named Stephen was full of faith and the holy spirit,

and yet this great wisdom, and though he was young, he was so wise. But here's another thing that

will come out of this story is Stephen died at a very young age. In fact, he was the first

martyr of the early church. The greatest tragedy is not a life that is cut short if we want to use

that verbage. The greatest tragedy is a life that is wasted. Jim Elliott was a martyr,

along with Nate St. and others who went to take the gospel to a tribe known as the Alcas,

and they were killed by this tribe. And in fact, Jim's wife, Elizabeth, went back and led the very man

that killed her husband to Christ. So it was a story of redemption ultimately, but Jim was a very

young man when he died. He was only 28 years old. Nate, a little journal. And in this journal,

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