Awesome.

So I wanna look at a specific passage, that's the big story, from Acts 10.

Now, Acts 10 is a disruptive story about a guy named Peter, and it infuriates me to one point, but then it encourages me to another.

So Peter's a guy, if you're, like, new to church or you're like, "Peter, I hear it," like, w- okay.

So Peter's a guy that walked with Jesus for just over three years, okay? Now, this is just me, okay? If God wants to get my attention, to do so in a trance is not the way to do it, okay? If God wants to tell me something, having a reasonable conversation with a smart person, that's the way to do it.

To show me a truth in a trance, I would talk myself out of it, okay? But here, here's my thing, right? You would think walking with Jesus for three and a half years, Peter would have picked it up by demonstration.

Always love the person more than the rule that's in your mind as to why you shouldn't love the person.

Amen.

offended.

And the truth of it is, is as simply as I can say it, is the quality of our life often comes down to how we handle our own regret and maybe more importantly, how we handle the other person's regret.

The loudest voice in your head at night cannot be the voice of the person you can't forgive.

And if the loudest voice in your head at night is the voice of the person you can't forgive, and especially if the voice of the person you can't forgive is you, it gets really, really complicated.

So I want to talk to you about that.

I have four goals.

One, when you leave here today, I want you to be equipped to handle your own regret.

sow new seeds before the sun goes down.

We hope that you are inspired, encouraged, and empowered by the message you are about to hear.

So I want to talk to you today about making better decisions.

The quality of your life will largely come down to the quality of the decision you make.

Normally, we like to blame Satan or God or some outside source, like it's my parents' fault.

But in all of that, it just disempowers us.

And there's, frankly, some terrible filters for decision making.

The worst filter for decision making you can possibly engage in is being a psychopath, right? But I have to, for time's sake, I'm going to have to make an assumption that there's no psychopaths in a room at 9 a.m.

Thank

you so much.

It's an honor to be here with my Kingdom City family.

And to all our Kingdom City family online, my name is Shane.

I am a part of the Kingdom City family.

And when they bring me in, they want me to open the Bible.

And I take that real seriously.

How often do we do that?

Yes.

And so, so c- come by.

Let us put something in your hands that'll change the way you look at God.

It'll just go straight on your devices now.

Um, a- and in so doing, you help us feed, clothe, shelter, educate children with disabilities.

I think that's a pretty good trade.

All right, so I, I want to, um, I wanna talk to you today about making good decisions.

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If you don't know me, my name's Shane.

I'm a part of the Calvary family.

And when they bring me in, they want me to open the Bible.

And I take that real seriously.

Anytime I do that, I want Jesus to get bigger, the cross to work better, the resurrection to be central, scriptures to get bigger, not smaller.

Hope that's gonna be your experience here this morning.

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For more information about a Calvary campus near you or to join us online, visit our website, calvarycc.global.

It's so good to be here with my Calvary family and to our Calvary family in Cairns and the Sunshine Coast.

My name's Shane and I'm part of the Calvary team here.

When they bring me in, they want me to open the Bible.

And I take that real seriously.

And anytime I do that, I want Jesus to get bigger, the cross to work better, the resurrection to be central, scriptures to get bigger, not smaller.

Hope that's gonna be your experience in Cairns and Sunshine Coast here in Townsville, as well as all of our Calvary family.

I was like, oh my goodness.

Come on, can we welcome him tonight? [audience cheering] [audience applauding]

Thank you very much.

It's so good to be here, my Blenheim family.

Thank you so much for always being so hospitable and kind to me.

I really, I really honor the fact that the whole church in the area would get together, um, on a Wednesday night.

And, um, and, and I hope to, uh, I hope to bring something tonight that makes Jesus bigger, the cross work better, the resurrection as central scriptures be bigger, not smaller.

That's my goal every time I open the Bible.

[laughs]

[laughs]

That's it.

I want one.

Because everybody else has one.

If I don't have one, I feel unsafe.

That's why you should own a gun if you want one.

But not if I want one, Jesus wants me to have one.

[laughs]

I wanna talk to you tonight about making better decisions.

I wanna talk to you about a, a better filter for decision-making.

Um, the, the quality of our life will largely come down to the quality of the decisions we make.

Like, w- we, we tend to like to ...

What, what people do like to do, and, um, and look, full disclosure, I do have a master's degree in clinical psychology as well as two theology degrees.

I'm qualified to talk about the Bible.

[laughs]

Edom.

I want to open up something Jesus said today, and here's what I'm going to ask you to do.

I'm going to ask you to take about, this is about a 35-minute message.

I want you to take the next 35 minutes, and if you'll do me a favor, and just ask the Lord for the grace to be fully present, to resist the urge to be somewhere else in your head.

It's just 35 minutes, and see what God might do.

And here's the thing, if the Holy Spirit moves you at any point in this message, I just want you inside to say your next yes.

Not outside, that would be awful and awkward.

[audience applauds]

All right, you guys can be seated.

Oh, it's so good to be here with you, with our Kingdom City family, um, online.

Um, my name's Shane.

I'm a part of the Kingdom City team, and, um, I...

When they bring me in, they want me to open the Bible, and I take that really seriously.

And any time I do that, I want Jesus to get bigger, the cross to work better, the resurrection to be central, and scriptures to get bigger, not smaller.

We pray that you're encouraged by this powerful word from our Sunday service.

All right.

[audience applauds] You guys can be seated.

So good to be back with you.

Thank you for being my new Life Melbourne family.

I really appreciate it.

Thanks for your hospitality.

We pray that you're encouraged by this powerful word from our Sunday service.

[upbeat music] Morning, everybody.

You can be seated.

It's so good to be here with my Life family.

Thank you to Craig and Nadia for inviting me to be a part of the Life family.

It's my first time here, and I've just really enjoyed, I've really enjoyed my time, especially, like, with the team Friday and Saturday and then, of course, this morning.

Um, it's an honor to open the Bible today.

We hope you enjoy this message.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for being my Hope You See Nashville family.

If you don't know me, I'm just so thankful to be a part of the Hope You See family around the world and Los Angeles and in the Central Coast.

And you have one of the great churches in the world right here.

When they bring me in, they want me to open the Bible.

This is rabbi kung fu

Hello everybody, it's so good to come into you, into your homes today to open up the scripture.

Today I get to open the scripture up and I love doing that.

And so what we always do when we open up a scripture is we ask, what happened? And then we ask a more important question, what's happening in me right now because of what happened? And so I want to tell you the story of four different people from the scripture who went through a troubled time.

And I want to talk to you about how to build your faith in the middle of a troubled time.

time.

I think we almost ruined the word faith, that faith for the last 250 years has become a what word, like what do you believe? Do you believe what I believe? And it became a what word when faith actually in its rawest form is a who do you trust word, not a what do you believe word.