Mike Rusch
Follower, husband, father, orphan advocate, in need of grace, wanna be farmer, not great at small talk, trying to be a person of no reputation, and restoring with Cobblestone Project
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14 posts tagged Lent
(this is a repost from last year on this date, but is still heavy on my heart)
“
If to distant lands I scatter
If I sail to farthest seas
Would you find and firm and gather
‘til I only dwell in Thee?
If I flee from greenest pastures
Would you leave to look for me?
Forfeit glory to come after
‘Til I only dwell in Thee
If my heart has one ambition
If my soul one goal to seek
This my solitary vision ‘til
I only dwell in Thee
That I only dwell in Thee
‘Til I only dwell in Thee
Brooke Fraser, Hymn
“I think the reason the church is not good at telling stories is because we’ve not taught people that they have a powerful story to tell.”
Practitioner #4
Come, thou Fount of every blessing,
tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
mount of thy redeeming love.
Here I raise mine Ebenezer;
hither by thy help I'm come;
and I hope, by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
wandering from the fold of God;
he, to rescue me from danger,
interposed his precious blood.
O to grace how great a debtor
daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here's my heart, O take and seal it,
seal it for thy courts above.
“Your true friends will be willing to sit with you in silence not for a week, but for as long as it takes. Your real friends will encourage you to keep talking, crying out to, arguing with God. And when you would be tempted to despair and quit the dance floor, saying that you simply lack the strength or the faith to go on, it is only your real friends who will have the love to leave you alone with the One who desires, above all, to finish the dance with you.”
“The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become —the more we realize everything in life is a gift.”
Brennan Manning
Mark 2:19-20
And Jesus said to them, “While the bridegroom is with them, the attendants of the bridegroom cannot fast, can they? So long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
“But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.”
