The big word that you must remove from your vocabulary is luck.

Dr. Tony Evans says it's impossible for luck to have any place in God's will for us.

Luck is a random chance happening, not a divinely orchestrated intervention.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president

of the Urban Alternative.

You know the old saying about the best laid plans, they never quite work out the way we expect.

Well, Dr. Evans says there's a reason why, and today he'll tell us what that is and how we can take a better approach to planning.

Let's join him, as he explains. and how we can take a better approach to planning.

Let's join him as he explains.

We've all watched our plans go awry.

Our expectations get dashed.

Our joys become gloom, and we've seen it the other way as well.

So this thing called life, this up and down roller coaster of reality can become quite daunting,

can become quite daunting, confusing, simultaneously joyful, and painful.

James has a word for us today about life and about planning it.

He begins in verse 13 by saying,

come now.

Come now. Come now.

Now he's getting ready to make a negative statement because he's going to end by talking about your

arrogance and pride.

He starts off by saying, come now, let me put it in more colloquial language,

come on now. Are you serious? You got to be kidding me. Come now. come now for real.

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