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The early church developed a visual language to express their faith in art.

Lord, please send young people to make this a reality. We need them now, in the church, more than ever.

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“A gospel which does not express itself to the physical needs of man is a gospel not worthy of the name… Man is a whole person, with body and soul. Some evangelicals act as if people are disembodied souls, statistics for eternity only.”
… Stan Mooneyham, former president, World Vision US, in a private communication from World Vision

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Psalm 92:1

[ How Great Are Your Works ] A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath. It is good to give thanks to the LORD,to sing praises to your name, O Most High;

Psalm 145:8-13

 8The LORD is gracious and merciful,
   slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
9The LORD is good to all,
   and his mercy is over all that he has made.
 10All your works shall give thanks to you, O LORD,
   and all your saints shall bless you!
11They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom
   and tell of your power,
12to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds,
   and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
   and your dominion endures throughout all generations.

Isaiah 51:3

For the LORD comforts Zion;he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden,her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in her,thanksgiving and the voice of song.

2 Corinthians 9:10-15
He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. 11 You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. 12For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God. 13By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission flowing from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others, 14 while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God upon you. 15 Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

Philippians 4:6 (English Standard Version)
6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Colossians 3:17 (English Standard Version)
17And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Revelation 7:9-12

 9After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” 11And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

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hilarious

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effortless & beautiful

Reckoner
You can’t take it with you
Dancing for your pleasure

You are not to blame for
Bittersweet distractor
Dare not speak its name
Dedicated to all you, all human beings

Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore
In rainbows, In rainbows
Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore

Reckoner
Take me with you
Dedicated to all you, all human beings

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Matt Chandler

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“God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, “O Lord, Thou knowest.” Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God’s omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.”
… A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), The Pursuit of God [1948],

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I’ve now seen this film three times, and am increasingly astonished by its beauty & emotional force.

I’m on board with this review line-by-line.

An excerpt that captures it for me:

“Winsome, touching and arguably the funniest Pixar effort ever, the gorgeously rendered, high-flying adventure is a tidy 90-minute distillation of all the signature touches that came before it.”

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With gratitude…

“But out of that silence rose new sounds more appalling still; a strange ventriloquism, of which you could not locate the source, a smothered moan, as if a thousand discords were flowing together into a key-note weird, unearthly, terrible to hear and bear, yet startling with its nearness; the writhing concord broken by cries for help, some begging for a drop of water, some calling on God for pity; and some on friendly hands to finish what the enemy had so horribly begun; some with delirious, dreamy voices murmuring loved names, as if the dearest were bending over them; and underneath, all the time, the deep bass note from closed lips too hopeless, or too heroic to articulate their agony…It seemed best to bestow myself between two dead men among the many left there by earlier assaults, and to draw another crosswise for a pillow out of the trampled, blood-soaked sod, pulling the flap of his coat over my face to fend off the chilling winds, and still more chilling, the deep, many voiced moan that overspread the field.”

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: 20th Maine,
At the end of the first day’s fighting at Fredericksburg,
“The Civil War Archive”,
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, p192

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