God gives you permission to have fun.

But Dr. Tony Evans says enjoying that fun requires a balance of healthy values and habits.

God has given you a gift of time and a gift of life and he wants you to max it out legitimately.

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.

Is part of human nature to seek out a life of meaning and purpose, but seeking it doesn't guarantee finding it,

leading to the frustration and hopelessness so many people often feel.

Today, Dr. Evans shares the secret of making the most out of life

while there's still time. Let's join him. The book of Ecleiviastes,

chapter 1 verse 2, vanity of vanity, sayeth the preacher, everything is vanity.

Emptiness without purpose, meaninglessness.

He's dealing with life under the sun.

That is life on earth, where men live, work, play, raise families,

Mary, Barry.

He's dealing with real life. If you're looking for the meaning of life in life, you'll miss life.

The way life works under the sun that is on Earth is that it is full of ups and downs, ends and out, good and bad.

We know that by our own experience, we just don't know it like he knew it because he could

afford to find out how bad it could be. Have you ever felt like this? Every morning you get up out of that same old bed

you go to that same old bathroom and look in that same old mirror at that same old face

go to that same old closet to choose from the same old clothes. You go to the

refrigerator, you open the refrigerator, look at those same old options for breakfast.

You go in that same old garage, you're getting that same old car

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