Record Live - NLC Greenbrier.
Speaker - Alex VanHouten
Reading:
Joshua Chapters 1-7 and 14
Psalms 91 “The Psalm Of Warriors”
John 8
Romans 5
2 Timothy Chapters 1 and 2
For Memory:
"He who dwells in the shelter of the most high will abide in the shadow of the almighty"
- Psalms 91:1
"We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame."
- Romans 5: 3-5
Questions worth praying through:
What does "courage" meant to you?
What do you believe are your most courageous acts?
What do you need to "take heart" about in your life right now?
Has your courage ever failed you?
What happened?
What courageous person do you admire?
What makes them courageous?
G.K Chesterton on courage:
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. 'He that will lose his life, the same shall save it,' is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. This paradox is the whole principle of courage; even of quite earthly or brutal courage. A man cut off by the sea may save his life if we will risk it on the precipice.
He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine”
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