Very few things in life are more difficult to bear than feeling that our life doesn't matter. And few things in life are more important than finding a way to make a difference in this world. And, just how can one spend a lifetime and squander opportunities to make that difference? Robert Clinton has studied and written a great deal about leadership. Clinton's research shows that over 70% of leaders don't finish well. For Christians he offers six factors that contribute to leadership failure:

Leaders quit learning and growing.Character weakness.They settle for the short-term.They forget their influence and purpose.Leaders who end poorly lose their vibrant relationship with God. Such is the leader we will consider in the new series that begins this week, "Squandered". Bill Crowder, in his work "Poor Choices and Missed Opportunities", puts it this way, "Saul was blessed with potential and opportunity. But through a series of bad choices, he became a tragic example of a wasted life." Saul was more like us than we care to admit. Join us as we take a look at some defining moments of his life and learn how we can avoid falling into the same consequences that robbed him of so much potential for good.