West Side Church of Christ - Elkton Ky

Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/5C71Rlg7QHE Summary: Expanded Message: Learning from Biblical Examples Introduction: A Modern Lesson from Gordon Bethune The Problem at Continental Airlines: Over 15 years, the airline went through 10 CEOs and became the worst in the industry. Employees were treated with suspicion, the workplace was toxic, and trust was absent. The toxic culture culmi...

Watch the Video Version Here: https://youtu.be/lzKuI2EYojw Summary: 1. Introduction: Bernie Madoff and the Problem of Selfishness The sermon opens with the story of Bernie Madoff —a once-respected figure in the stock market world (even serving as chairman of the NASDAQ) who orchestrated one of history’s largest Ponzi schemes. Despite having ample knowledge and opportunities to succeed legitimately...

Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/pM_TrWDGlf4 Summary: Expanded Summary of the Sermon 1. Peter Tomechi’s Story: An Example of Sacrificial Love and Dedication Background : Peter Tomechi, a Franciscan friar and teacher in a remote Kenyan school, dedicated his life to educating children in extreme poverty. His school was so underfunded that Peter gave 80% of his salary to buy school supp...

Watch the video version here:  https://youtu.be/DLTHcZp64Sc Summary: Wisdom Defined Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do at the right time and then acting on it. This principle is illustrated through the story of Dr. Francis Kelsey, an FDA medical officer who in the 1960s refused to approve the drug thalidomide for the U.S. market. Despite immense pressure, her wise decision saved countless chi...

Watch The Video Version Here:  https://youtu.be/MbCuGma5XOM Sermon Summary: Introduction Opening Story: The account of Judge Lou Olivera and veteran Joe Serna. Joe Serna, a decorated Green Beret, battled severe PTSD after a traumatic incident where he nearly drowned. After violating court orders, Judge Lou sentenced Joe to one night in jail, knowing the confinement would trigger Joe's PTSD. The ju...

Watch The Video Version Here: https://youtu.be/za-4V2aptXs Transcript: You know, if you're needing a Christmas idea for somebody,  this might make a good one.  Uh, that's a Ferrari 250 GT.  That's not exactly my style, but if you buy me one, I'll sell it. We'll all go spend Christmas at Maldives or somewhere like,  um, if you want to buy one, depend on the model. It'll cost you somewhere between a...

Watch The Video Version Here:  https://youtu.be/Z8PNeg5MVnA Transcript: It was another,  it was another gig on another night for  famous blues magician Darrell Davis.  He didn't realize that this night was going to  change the course of his life.  He was used to, after the show, people coming up to him and giving him compliments and talking  to his adoring fans. But  on this night,  He would meet...

Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/Kcdgo4QZzDs Transcript: If I asked you how you're doing today,  what's most likely to be the one word that you would use to interply to that?  I'm good.  You ever wonder where that word even come from?  Like some words, we just take them and we apply them. So many things. It's like, we don't even realize  what it really means. I mean, we just all kind...

Watch The Video Version Here:  https://youtu.be/2bhOPDeVg08 Transcript: You ever want something better?  I mean,  in the garden with Adam, Adam and Eve, that's  kind of what satan told them. They had,  they had it made and satan told them that they needed something  better.  Even when you got it made,  we're often tempted and pulled towards  doing something better.  Example. Some of you  Some of y...

Watch The Video Version Here: https://youtu.be/JORn1eGY9gc Transcript: You know, we,  we think about them often just as  soulless corporations. Just  these big businesses who are organized for just one purpose, to get more and more and more money.  And in some cases,  that's probably absolutely true.  But we often forget that these companies, as large as they may have grown to in our modern day an...

Watch The Video Version Here: https://youtu.be/reTKTQpBFcA Transcript:    Second Kings chapter 20, beginning of verse one.  In those days, hezekiah became sick  and was at the point of death.  And Isaiah, the prophet, the son of a man has come to him and said to him, Thus says the Lord, set your house in order for you shall die.  You shall not recover. Then hezekiah turned his face to the wall. An...

Watch the Video Version Here: https://youtu.be/HcyOJAdfH5Y Transcript: The  destructive power of one of these  is almost unimaginable.  They could take off from any point on earth  and travel to any other point on earth.  And that fact is displayed in the name that has been given to them  intercontinental ballistic missile.  It can go between continents  and any one of those has enough power with...

Watch the Video Version Here: https://youtu.be/MnZSU9zA2rM Transcript: You know, they get some pretty strange names at times. On average, there's 12 a year, but some years there's more and some years there are less. When they're going on, they're the focus of attention, but, but usually after the fact, unless you were directly involved, they're just forgotten. But some of them, some of them are wi...

Watch the Video version Here: https://youtu.be/rwSqRlh8I2s Transcript: You know, some opportunities,  some opportunities come once in a lifetime. I'll  give you an example.  1978,  in the fall of the year,  Paul Picard,  not Captain Picard, but Paul Picard,  was a TV producer and he got assigned to a new television show.  Now, some people thought it wasn't going to be much. It wasn't.  The first s...

Watch Video Version Here: https://youtu.be/Zd0wqHjQZxA Transcript: Good morning.  So we had our fall harvest fish yesterday. You know, janitor making a prayer this morning. I had him request for that. And there's a lot of things that people that we found out that that's needed.  But families was one of the things that really keyed in on us this weekend  because of the people we meet  and how we ap...

Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/oY_Tz1kPLH4 Transcript: When I say the phrase the American dream,  what comes to your mind?  Probably some rags to riches story where  a person is able to maybe in one generation completely changed not only their life, but maybe their entire family tree.  And you think about that. How do you How do you achieve the American dream  for a California born...

Watch The Video Version Here:  https://youtu.be/5aBhahbwrYY Transcript: It's taller up here.  It was New Year's Day two thousand and sixteen  and Matthew South Carolina police officer Quincy Smith  was on duty.  This was the first time this year that he would be on patrol and  for a long while, it would be the last time he would be on patrol.  He received a call about an attempted burglary that ha...

Watch The Video Version Here: https://youtu.be/0vn4GCY-lFo Transcript: Have you ever had a hard day?  October the 20th of 2013  was a hard day for a  a Decatur, Georgia native named Antoinette Tuff.  Turns out she was going to be named pretty correctly, or the last name at least.  Before we talk about October the 20th, I need to tell you about  all the days that kind of led up to that.  You see, O...

View the video version here:  https://youtu.be/21cEX3Y1KD8 Transcript: As far as companies go, it was,  it was a behemoth.  In 1970,  in the primary market in which it operated, it had 90 percent of the market share.  In the secondary market that it operated in, it had 85%.  And everyone thought that this company was just gonna  be one of those greats that just went on forever.  And yet today, it'...

Watch The Video Version Here:  https://youtu.be/YCXI4MHHqHQ Transcript: They're, uh,  they're basically worthless to most people.  I dare say probably  half the people in the room here today probably never even seen one,  let alone had to use it.  If you had to go,  had to go find one, I would say that probably your parents or your grandparents house, probably in an attic or a closet would be the...

Watch the video version here:  https://youtu.be/-8Adwrqg6yM Transcript: It was a beautiful  spring morning  in April  in Paris, no less.  1910. And a great crowd had gathered  to hear the speaker of the hour.  You may know his name was Teddy Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt.  Now, at this point in his life, he was former president. He had finished up two terms, and  after his presidency, he went on a...

Watch the Video Here: https://youtu.be/xGhzPwbeTy4?si=CjGGMoMG09eVxpxi Transcription of Episode:  When I say  the Watergate scandal,  what image comes to your mind? I bet it's something like this, right?  Course now, I mean, it's just a freebie, but if you gotta tell somebody you're not a crook, I mean, chances are you done lost that battle, you know. It'd be like me telling somebody I'm not fat,...