Live in the Story

Did you know that God is writing an epic tale in which He reconciles, restores, and renews all things? It's true.

[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

"The link between father & son...must have something of [eternality] about it. There is a place called 'heaven' where the good here unfinished is completed; & where the stories unwritten, & the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.” —Tolkien to Christopher

[Live in the Story @liveinthestory]

The Story in which we live and move and have our being...

Quotation from ‘Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture’ by @zugzwanged and @AJWTheology. https://t.co/7xudnTMyoA

[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

Paul was right.
#Tolkien was right.
Lewis was right.
Dostoevsky was right.
(Via @AJWTheology in ‘Echoes of Exodus’)

[Dan Cruver @DanCruver]

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[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

“There are still other fastnesses, and secret ways of escape into the mountains. Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien #Tolkien

[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

“Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
—J.R.R. #Tolkien

[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

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[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

‘A great Shadow has departed,' said Gandalf, and then he laughed, and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land.
—J.R.R. #Tolkien

[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

“The light within creation resonates with the human spirit, prompting the experience of #wonder.”
@LisaCoutras, ‘#Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty’

[Dan Cruver @DanCruver]

"There is a difference between being saved once-and-for-all and applying daily, through faith, the finished work of Christ. I must look to the finished work of Christ in the *now* of my life." 
—Francis A. Schaeffer, 'A Christian View of Spirituality'

[Dan Cruver @DanCruver]

C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien:
@timkellernyc quotes @CSLewis and @JRRTolkien in the same devotional reflection:
*Lewis: “completes the enjoyment” (in ‘Reflections on the Psalms’)
*Tolkien: “the praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards” (‘The Two Towers,’ p. 327)

[Dan Cruver @DanCruver]

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“Christ is [the] one, true offspring of Abraham who inherits the promises, and all who are united to him by faith, whether Jew or gentile, are counted as the offspring of Abraham and heirs to the promises.” —@trenthunter & Stephen Wellum #GoodNews
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[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

In these increasingly complex and volatile times, we must strive to be like Gandalf: “wherever he came men’s hearts would lift again.”

#Tolkien #TolkienWisdom #Gandalf #LifeGivingWords #ReturnOfTheKing #LotR #encouragingwords

[Dan Cruver @DanCruver]

"Missional engagement is primarily the ministry of Jesus, through union with him we participate in what he does."
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[Scott Sauls @scottsauls]

Indeed! On this day especially, I am comforted by the affirmation of Gandalf to Samwise, that in the end, “everything sad will come untrue.” https://t.co/DXp9gSuXDe