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This episode discusses the importance of decision-making and how to apply biblical principles to make better choices in life.

Day 139 Today’s Reading: 1 Corinthians 6 Columbia researcher Sheena Iyengar has found that the average person makes about 70 decisions every day. That’s 25,500 decisions a year. Over 70 years, that’s 1,788,500 decisions. The twentieth-century philosopher, Albert Camus once said, “Life is a sum of all your choices.” You put all of those 1,788,500 choices together, and that’s who you are. As Stephen Covey said: “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” Job opportunity Ministry position Dating Marriage Investments One person insightfully said: “Many people today want filet mignon results but make hot dog decisions. It doesn’t work that way!” I want to help you with your filet-mignon results and give you filet-mignon decision-making skills from the apostle Paul. In fact if we take one verse in 1 Corinthians 6 and add one more verse from 1 Corinthians 10, I think we can take from Paul a good decision-making grid for our daily lives. In these two verses, Paul gives us three questions you and I are to impose on our choices each day. And they all start with “all things are lawful”: All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things…

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Host: The 260 Journey

Topics covered

• decision making
• personal growth
• Christian teachings
• philosophy
• life choices

Keywords

• decision making
• 1 Corinthians
• life choices
• personal growth
• philosophy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Corinthians 10

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