Pastor Don Mackintosh, Pastor of the Weimar Campus Church, shares his thoughts on how we should find God’s answers to life’s questions.

<p>Pastor Don Mackintosh, Pastor of the Weimar Campus Church, shares his thoughts on how we should find God’s answers to life’s questions.</p>

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Weimar University

Don Mackintosh

You’re Looking the Wrong Way

There was 1 moment I cannot measure in time, a world of glare, a man aghast.

I certainly thought quickly enough to achieve the idea, I'm going to be run down and probably killed.

There was a concussion, incredibly and indescribably violent.

It blotted out everything but my thoughts let's pray Father in heaven bless us today as we think for a few moments in this hour and give us your spirit we pray in Christ's name.

I'm sure that's less than you're going to be paying me after the service.

Written by Winston Churchill after he was hit by a car in New York City.

He had come because his stock market investments had gone south, and so he was on a speaking tour.

Not only were his stock market investments going south, but also his political career.

And yet, he was speaking prophetically about a man who had served in World War I right across the trenches from him by the name of Adolf Hitler.

And when Hitler rose to power, suddenly people would realize that Winston Churchill had had the prophetic insight to recognize that Hitler was dangerous.

All the words of Churchill that inspired not only the United Kingdom, but the world to stand up against the aggression of Hitler, It may never have happened because he got hit by a car in New York City because he was looking the wrong way.

The historians obsess over what would have happened if the car had been going just 3 or 4 miles an hour faster than it was.

It broke his nose, it broke his most of his ribs, it was a contusion to the head.

What would have happened if Churchill had died And why did he almost die?

Some of you came here because you're eating the wrong way.

Some of you are here because you're thinking the wrong way.

In fact, all of us are here because we're thinking the wrong way, and we're eating the wrong way.

We're consuming things every day that necessitate coming to a place like this to begin thinking and looking the right way.

How many of you want to look the right way today instead of the wrong way?

Ever since the beginning of scripture, we have the story, Eve began to look the wrong way.

New start, really you're here for a restart.

How many of you knew it was a Christian-based program before you came?

Is that okay with you that it was Christian-based?

I don't know how someone come here without knowing that.

Yeah, the CHIP program is kind of like the New Start program on the road, yeah, exactly.

The New Start program is actually a restart program, and you're never gonna really restart unless God's in the picture.

You can come here to a program like this, And you can be surrounded by people that lead you to the New Star Cafeteria, but unless God changes your heart, you're going to revert back.

Depression and anxiety recovery, forget about it without God being in the mix.

Bible is central to both of these programs.

And I remember reading a quote by this guy Albert Ellis, 1 of the founders of what's called cognitive behavioral therapy.

And that's what New Start is, and that's what depression recovery is.

You thought you should be eating 6 eggs every day, and they told you no.

I think I can safely say that the Judeo-Christian Bible is a self-help book that has probably enabled more people to make more extensive, intensive personality and behavioral changes than all professional therapists combined.

And by the way, the first person people turn to when they're in trouble is not counselors or physicians or Psychiatrists its ministers.

And So ministers and Theology students and others have a great debt as well.

They need to know the Bible because the Bible is what really helps people change.

For unto us a child is born, for us the Son is given, the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Mighty, Counselor.

Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

So today, I wanna look at a passage with you that's really a counseling passage.

So I invite you to turn your Bibles to Psalm 25.

Olaf, Beth, Gemel, Doleth, Heth, Was, Zayin, Heth, Teth, Koth, Limun, Nuh, Samoth, Peh, Koth, Reth, Shin, Sin, Tau.

Why does it have 22 verses based on that hint?

It's based on the acrostic of a Hebrew alphabet.

Now if you want a longer acrostic, go to Psalm 119.

It has the alphabet letter, and then it has 8 verses.

And how they taught their children growing up the alphabet was by teaching them Psalm 119, all 176 verses, but each 1 went with each letter of the alphabet.

So when you were through, you memorized the longest song in the hymn book.

I could have turned those into Jeopardy questions for you, but I didn't.

Okay, so whenever you're looking at any passage, oh by the way, reading several books this summer and actually writing a book this summer, so that's why some of you haven't seen me, for other reasons as well you haven't seen me.

But reading a book on the history of Christianity and its impact on the world, and its impact even up to this day, and back to Churchill, you know when he would give his speeches when he was here in America and when he's in his own country, he said we're fighting for a Christian worldview.

We're fighting that Christianity won't be stamped out.

Hitler wanted to get back to the Teutonic gods of Germany, to the wanderlust, to the violence, to the raw power.

There's nothing wrong with death and killing, there's nothing wrong because of survival of the fittest.

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