Pre Paint & Sip

April 21, 2024

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1.

²⁴ O Lord, how manifold are your

! In

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have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

²⁵ Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great.

²⁶ There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.

²⁷ These all

, to give them their food in due season.

²⁸ When you

, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.

²⁹ When you

, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

³⁰ When you send forth your

, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.

- Psalm 104: 24-30 (ESV)

2.

⁵¹ Listen, I tell you a

: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed

⁵² in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last

. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

⁵³ For the

must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the

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with immortality.

⁵⁴ When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come

: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

⁵⁵ “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”

⁵⁶ The sting of death is

, and the power of sin is the

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.

⁵⁷ But thanks be to God! He gives us the

through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵⁸ Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand

. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

- 1 Corinthians 15: 51-58 (ESV)

3.

In the eucatastrophe (happy disaster) of fairy stories we see in a brief vision a far off gleam or echo of the Gospel in the real world… The Gospel contains a fairy-story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy stories. There is no tale ever told that humans would rather find was true. The happy ending of fairy stories looks forward to the Great Eucatastrophe (great happy disaster), but this story is supreme, and it is true. In the Gospel, art has been verified. God is the Lord of angels, of men, and of elves. Legend and history have met, and fused. The Gospel does not abrogate legends, rather, it has hallowed them.

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Todd Camba
Youth Pastor
The Church of the Good Shepherd Cherry Hill
(609) 320-2974