Building a Successful Life
Matthew 7:24-29
Sermon
by King Duncan

An elderly woman walked up to a little old man rocking in a chair on his porch. Though he looked weathered and feeble, he had a content smile on his face.

“I couldn’t help noticing how happy you look,” she said.

“What’s your secret for a happy life?”

“Well, I smoke three packs of cigarettes a day,” he said, waving a wrinkled hand through the air, with a smoldering cigarette between his thumb and finger. “I also drink a case of whiskey a week, eat fatty foods, and never exercise.”

“That’s amazing!” said the woman. “So, how old are you?”

“Twenty‑six,” he answered.

If you were going to build a healthy body, you would not follow this young man’s example, would you? How about building a healthy marriage? Where would you look for models?

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Christianglobe Networks, Inc., Dynamic Preaching Second Quarter 2008, by King Duncan