While every area of life calls for evaluation, should we be doing one thing or something

else, career A or career B, enough school or more school, stop spending, start investing.

Don't settle for the good when you can go for the great.

All sorts of books and workshops and apps stand ready to help us live from higher priorities.

And this is important especially for Christians because we live for the highest priority that

there is, we live for the eternal.

Our everlasting priority bears on our media diets, our gaming, our careers, our parenting,

really every single decision that we make in life.

In the summer of 1997, Pastor John preached a sermon on Hebrews 11 verses 39 to chapter

12 verse 2, a section of scripture popularly referred to as God's hall of fame or the hall

of faith, a section celebrating our ancestors in the faith who learn to live faithfully

in this life, turning away from the good in order to pursue the eternally great.

Here's a clip from that sermon sent to us from a listener named Melissa in Lumberton,

New Jersey.

Here's Pastor John.

And life has begun to be trivial, light, L-I-T-E, Bud Light, Lifelight, Church Light.

That's who he's writing to.

Chapter 5 verse 12, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for

someone to teach you the elemental principles of the oracles of God.

You come to need milk and not solid food.

You hear the ache in this writer's voice?

There's been enough times since you got saved that you should be teaching a class or

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