All Praise – June 5
A Year with Aslan from The Magician’s Nephew
Queen Jadis is explaining why she used the magic word to kill everyone, & not unlike we see today she passes the blame, saying..
It was my sister’s fault. At any moment I was ready to make peace, if only she’d yield the throne to me. But she would not.
The bible says pride comes before destruction. But there is humility at the cross.
Ransomed Heart Devotion
Soaring on wings like eagles doesn’t happen without a fight. In Waking the Dead, John Eldredge writes…
The Religious Spirit has turned discipleship into a soul-killing exercise of principles. Most folks don’t even know they can walk with God, let alone hear his voice. & it makes it next to impossible to break free by spreading the lie that there is no war. So we’ve acquiesced, & surrendered without a fight.
Thankfully we’re not left alone. We have a Redeemer.
Quotes
Jay Milbrandt ~ go + do
As a society we’ve become accustomed to always doing something, but there must be a concrete goal & metrics by which we measure success. We must return with drastically different before & after pics to make our time there legitimate.
Matt Redman ~ Mirror Ball
The first & last signs of the kingdom to come are worship. Evangelism is a temporary necessity. Justice & acts of compassion are great signs, but no one will be in need of them in heaven. The same is true of healing. We will be left with worship: an unending song of praise forever reverberating around the throne of God.
Philip Yancey ~ What’s So Amazing About Grace
The original followers of Jesus watched their beloved Jerusalem burn to the ground, & I’m sure they looked back thru tears as they moved on to Rome & Spain & Ethiopia.
Teddy Roosevelt
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 and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Scriptures