Outpost 17

EXODUS 1-3 / MATTHEW 15:21-39 “Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost

GENESIS 49-50 / MATTHEW 15:1-20 “The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or b...

GENESIS 46-48 / MATTHEW 14:22-36 “It is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen and wonderful things too. It is a world where goodness is pitted against evil, love against hate, order against chaos, in a great struggle where often it is hard to be sure who belongs to which side because appearances are endlessly deceptive....

GENESIS 44-45 / MATTHEW 14:1-21 “Today is the only day in which we have any power.” ― Steve Maraboli

GENESIS 41 / MATTHEW 13:1-32 “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ― Maya Angelou

GENESIS 38-40 / MATTHEW 12:22-50 “This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.” ― Mar...

GENESIS 31-32 / MATTHEW 10:24-42 “God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.” ― John Piper, A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God

GENESIS 25-26 / MATTHEW 9:1-17 You stumble through your days Got your head hung low Your skies' a shade of grey Like a zombie in a maze You're asleep inside But you can shake away 'Cause you're just a dead man walking Thinking that's your only option But you can flip the switch and brighten up your darkest day Sun is up and the color's blinding Take the world and redefine it Leave behind your narr...

GENESIS 23-24 / MATTHEW 8 “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

GENESIS 15-17 / MATTHEW 5:27-48 “We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.” ― Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

GENESIS 12-14 / MATTHEW 5:1-26 “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

EZEKIEL 45-46 / 2 PETER 3 “When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart” ― Gordon B. Hinckley

EZEKIEL 34-35 / 1 PETER 2 “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

EZEKIEL 7-9 / HEBREWS 10:24-39 “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” ― C....

EZEKIAL 1-3 / HEBREWS 9 “To be in Christ -- that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you -- that is sanctification!” ― W. Ian Thomas

Jeremiah 36-37 / Philemon “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

Jeremiah 9 - 10 / 1 Timothy 3 “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” ― Thomas Jefferson

ISAIAH 50-52 / 1 THESSALONIANS 1 “Only this is faith: to continue.” ― Marty Rubin

ISAIAH 45-47 / COLOSSIANS 3 “When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute. Your anger is actually the way the idol keeps you in its service, in its chains. Therefore if you find that, despite all the efforts to forgive, your anger and bi...

ISAIAH 41-42 / COLOSSIANS 1 “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

ISAIAH 34 - 36 / PHILIPPIANS 2 “Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” ― Vince Lombardi

ISAIAH 31-33 / PHILIPPIANS 1 “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.” ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

ISAIAH 29-30 / EPHESIANS 6 “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

ISAIAH 19 - 21 / EPHESIANS 2 “A quiet conscience makes one strong!” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

ISAIAH 16 - 18 / EPHESIANS 1 If you've got pain He's a pain taker If you feel lost He's a way maker If you need freedom or saving He's a prison-shaking Savior If you've got chains He's a chain breaker Zach Williams