Outpost 17

ISAIAH 13 - 15 / GALATIANS 6 “‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.” ― Martin Luther

ISAIAH 7-9 / GALATIANS 4 “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” ― John Milton

SONG OF SOLOMON 4 - 5 / 2 CORINTHIANS 13 “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ― Mother Teresa

SONG OF SOLOMON 1 - 3 / 2 CORINTHIANS 12 “When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” ― C.S. Lewis

ECCLESIASTES 10 - 12 / 2 CORINTHIANS 11 : 16 - 33 “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

ECCLESIASTES 7-9 / 2 CORINTHIANS 11: 1-15 “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” ― Maya Angelou

ECCLESIASTES 4 - 6 / 2 CORINTHIANS 10 "4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." ― 1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-7

ECCLESIASTES 1 -3 / 2 CORINTHIANS 9 “Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” ― Edwin Hubbell Chapin

PROVERBS 13 - 14 / 1 CORINTHIANS 16 “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error a...

PROVERBS 3 - 4 / 1 CORINTHIANS 13 “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

PSALM 128 - 131 / 1 CORINTHIANS 7:25-40 “It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?” ― Henry David Thoreau

PSALM 124 - 127 / 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1-24 "Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones." - Shannon L. Alder

PSALM 112 - 115 / 1 CORINTHIANS 1 “The only way to free ourselves from the destructive influence of counterfeit gods is to turn back to the true one. The living God, who revealed himself both at Mount Sinai and on the Cross, is the only Lord who, if you find him, can truly fulfill you, and, if you fail him, can truly forgive you.” ― Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods

PSALM 109 - 111 / ROMANS 16 “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.” ― Brené Brown

PSALM 93-95 / ROMANS 11:22-36 “Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.” ― William Arthur Ward

PSALM 90-92 / ROMANS 11:1-21 "To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.” ― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

PSALM 82 - 84 / ROMANS 8 : 19 - 39

PSALM 79- 81 / ROMANS 8:1-18 “The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.” ― Timothy J. Keller

PSALM 70 - 72 / ROMANS 4 “And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.” ― Donald Miller

PSALM 68 - 69 / ROMANS 3 "Don't blink, just like that your six years old and you take a nap...trust me, friend, a hundred years goes faster than you think, so don't blink..." - Kenny Chesney

PSALM 56-68 / ACTS 28 : 1-15 “Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.” ― Tim Fargo

PSALM 53-55 / ACTS 27:26-44 “‎Today is a new day. It's a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the 'same crap, different day' lie! How many days has that lie stolen from you? Seize the wonder and uniqueness of today! Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it...

PSALM 50 -52 / ACTS 27 : 1-25 “Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unque...

PSALM 47 - 49 / ACTS 26 “We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.” ― C.S. Lewis

PSALM 34 - 35 / ACTS 22 “The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.” ― Brennan Manning