Outpost 17

PSALM 31 - 33 / ACTS 21 : 15 - 40 "If you want to figure out the players that will go on to bigger and better things, look at how they fail, in a game of failure. It’s easy to stand tall in baseball when things are going well. But those who stand tall while getting shelled – which happens in baseball often – and shake it off prior to the next outing or at bat, those are likely the players to look...

PSALM 28-30 / ACTS 21:1-14 “As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.” ― Dexter Palmer

PSALM 22-24 / ACTS 20:1-16 “Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it…and then it’s gone. But to surrender who you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying...” ―...

PSALM 19-21 / ACTS 19:21-41 “My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.” ― Tana French

PSALM 17-18 / ACTS 19:1-20 “The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving. Awareness of our poverty and ineptitude causes us to rejoice in the gift of being called out of darkness into wondrous light and translated into the kingdom of God's beloved...

PSALM 13-16 / ACTS 18 “If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.” ― Terry Pratchett,

PSALM 10-12 / ACTS 17:16-34 "If trusting God and finding joy in your work means you go 0'fer with 3 strikeouts...then you needed to go 0'fer with 3 strikeouts."

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,...

PSALM 4-5 / ACTS 16:16-40 “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things wi...

PSALM 1-3 / ACTS 16:1-15 “Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” ― Gregg Harris

JOB 29-30 / ACTS 12 “If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.” ― Timothy J. Keller

JOB 26-28 / ACTS 11 “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.” ― Helen Keller

JOB 19-20 / ACTS 9:23-43 “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” ―

JOB 16-18 / ACTS 9:1-22 “The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.” ― Roy T. Bennett

Job 13-15 / Acts 8:26-40 “Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.” ― James Surowiecki

JOB 7-9 / ACTS 7:44-60 This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be rememberèd- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think them...

JOB 4-6 / ACTS 7:20-43 “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

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...

Esther 4-6 / Acts 5:17-42 “It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.” ― Sigmund Freud

Esther 1-3 / Acts 5:1-16 “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” ― Winston S. Churchill

NEHEMIAH 12-13 / ACTS 4:23-37 “The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley

Psalm 28-30 / Acts 21:1-14 “As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.” ― Dexter Palmer

Psalm 25-27 / Acts 20:17-38 “The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his lif...

Nehemiah 4-6 / Acts 2:14-47 "Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen,...