Outpost 17

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