Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.

Learning to cover a mistake is as important as getting everything right.

Learn from the mistakes of others-you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.