GLAD TIDINGS ASSEMBLY
          OCEANSIDE
    
    IN SEARCH OF RENEGADES

       By David Foster

    After an assassin killed Bobby kennedy, Ted
  Kennedy gave the eulogy to his brother's
  funeral. Listen to a brief excerpt of how Ted
  remembered his brother:
    My brother need not be idealized or enlarged
  in death beyond what he was in life. He should
  be remembered simply as a good and decent
  man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw
  suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried
  to stop it. And he said, many times, "Some men
  see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream
  things that never were, and say 'Why not?'
   
    That's the choice you have to make. Will you be
  remembered as a dreamer who refused to
  accept the status quo (Latin for "the mess we're
  in")? Or will you accept the opportunity of a
  lifetime? Will you be a reactionary or a renega-
  de? I vote for the renegade. Renegade never
  quit, despite the bruises.
    In the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson
  wrote, "Nothing will ever be attempted if all
  possible objections must first be overcome. Ask
  yourself the ultimate question: What's stopping
  me from living my dreams? Maybe you need to
  become a little more "unreasonable." Maybe you
  need to become a renegade.
    We need more people who dream up solutions
  to the problem of the past, present, and future,
  and fewer people complaining about them. We
  need more dreamers to become doers. We need
  more renegades who break conventional wisdom
  and defy the odds.
  With God
  All Things
       Are
  Possible
 
 Trust Him
     
        DEFINING OUR LIVES...

     How would you want your life to be re-
  membere by those who knew you after
  you have pass through the "here and
  now"?
     How would you want your life to be in
  eternity? (if you don't believe in the
  "life-here-after", don't worry about it).
     What we do "here and now" will certainly
  determine what we will be and where we 
   will be in etenity.
     From the cradle to the grave, we are 
  defining our lives, and that's how people
  will remember us, and that's how our 
  eternal destiny will be determined!
     In the movie, "The Gladiator" general
  Maximus cried to his Roman soldiers as 
  the invading barbarians rushed towards
  them, "What we do here will echo in 
  eternity!!!"
     One of the reasons why Rick Warren's
  book "The Purpose-Driven Life" is a 
  best seller is because people want to 
  know if their lives have meaning and pur-
  pose. They want to know if their lives has
  significance.
     How are you defining your life now? 
  What are you doing to impact other 
  people's lives?
     Remember what we do here will "echo
  in eternity."     














   Attitude determines Altitude!!!




   The greater is our level of committment
    to God, the greater will be the level of our
    discomfort!!!