Outpost 17

PSALM 7-9 / ACTS 17:1-15 “What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending upon their nature, evoke in us frustration or grief or sadness or loneliness or guilt or regret or anger or fear or anxiety or anguish or despair. These are uncomfortable feelings, often very uncomfortable, often as painful as any kind of physical pain,...

JOB 1-3 / ACTS 7:1-19 “The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.” ― Vince Lombardi Jr.

JOB 1-3 / ACTS 7:1-19 " There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein

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Esther 7-10 / Acts 6 “Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step...

1 KINGS 12-13 / LUKE 24:1-35 “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” ― J.K. Rowling

2 SAMUEL 17-18 / LUKE 21:1-19 “Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.” ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

2 SAMUEL 15-16 / LUKE 20:27-47 “Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.” ― Roy T. Bennett

2 SAMUEL 13-14 / LUKE 20:1-26 “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky

2 SAMUEL 1-3 / LUKE 18:1-27 "But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!” ― John Wesley

1 SAMUEL 30-31 / LUKE 17:20-37 “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.” ― Thomas Paine

1 SAMUEL 27-29 / LUKE 17:1-19 “Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can be...

1 SAMUEL 25-26 / LUKE 16:19-31 “It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.” ― James E. Faust

1 SAMUEL 22-24 / LUKE 16:1-18 “A great man is always willing to be little.” - Ralph Waldo Emmerson

1 SAMUEL 4-6 / LUKE 12:35-59 “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” - Virginia Wolf

1 SAMUEL 1-3 / LUKE 12:1-34 “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.” ― Viktor E. Frank

JOSHUA 1-3 / LUKE 1:57-80 “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” ― John C. Maxwell

DEUTERONOMY 33-34 / LUKE 1:24-56 “If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus' fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for the...

DEUTERONOMY 25-26 / MARK 15:1-32 "You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.” ―...

NUMBERS 21-25 / MARK 7:14-8:21 “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” ― Abraham Lincoln

NUMBERS 14-15 / MARK 6:1-32 "Don't put in average effort and claim you want exceptional results." - James Clear

LEVITICUS 18-19 / MATTHEW 27:32-66 “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” ― C.S. Lewis

LEVITICUS 7-9 / MATTHEW 25:31-46 “Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

EXODUS 25-26 / MATTHEW 21:1-22 The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination. How impossible it is to enact the surrender of the self by doing what we like...” ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

EXODUS 11-12 / MATTHEW 18:21-35 “[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because...