Sermon manuscript: Psalm 25, “ Trusting the Lord” By Trent McEntyre Introduction Personal greeting Humorous story about my family and the baptism of our baby Marshmallow Story There was a groundbreaking study done by a psychologist at Stanford University, in which he got a group of four years in room and place a marshmallow in front of them. Then he promised that any child, who waited until he came back, some 15 to 20 minutes later, would be rewarded with a second marshmallow. 14 years later, they tracked all these children and discovered that the “waiters” had grown into teenagers who were socially, emotionally and academically more competent than the four-year-olds who ate the marshmallow at once. “Waiting”, trusting the researcher’s promise in the face of a marshmallow at four was shown to be “twice as powerful a predictor of later academic prowess as IQ.” Have you ever imagined the success you or your kids might have in life if you were able to wait when you needed to? Waiting, ...
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