Higher Thoughts. Higher Ways. – How Thinking Leads to Good and Tragic Outcomes

<p style="text-align:center;"><a href='http://visioncomsolutionscom.siteprotect.net/Higher_Thoughts_Notes.pdf'>DOWNLOAD KEYNOTE SLIDES</a></p> <p>Isaiah 55:8</p> <p>“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9  “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.”</p> <p>We are living in times that have been called “The Information Age.”</p> <p>A lot of things, occasions, and holidays were designed to influence our thinking and actions. </p> <p>Do you know why the National Anthem is sung at sporting events? </p> <p>Do you know why “In God We Trust” is on our currency?</p> <p> </p> <p>Southern Baptist Convention was founded in 1845 in support of slave-owning church members.</p> <p>James Boyce, the SBC seminary’s first president and a slave owner. He was chaplain to the Confederate Army.</p> <p>The “Lost Cause” and Confederate Monuments</p> <p>1,747 monuments erected to defeated Confederate rebels</p> <p> </p> <p>Anti-Critical Race Theory actions are another example of influencing thinking.</p> <p>People brand CRT as “Marxist”</p> <p>There is work to “sanitize” (re-write) history and ease “guilty” feelings.</p> <p>Critical Race Theory is an academic concept that is more than 40 years old. The core idea is that race is a social construct, and that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies. https://alsoacarpenter.com/2021/06/06/crt-commonplaces/</p> <p>2 Peter 1:3, As His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue.</p> <p>The “knowledge of God” as a relationship opens all kinds of doors. </p> <p>Things that pertain to “godliness,” come from relationship with God.</p> <p>Some Higher Thoughts</p> <p>From The Obstacle Is the Way - by Ryan Holiday</p> <ol><li>See the opportunity within your obstacle:  “I can do all things through Christ who