Avenue Vineyard September 11, 2016 The Hearts True North Avenue Vineyard September 11, 2016

“We need a coat with two pockets “We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.” Parker Palmer

What do you want?

“A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart…What you say flows from what is in your heart.” Luke 6:45

“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Proverbs 4:23

“You don't think your way into a new kind of living “You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.” Henri Nouwen

Philippians 1:9-11 “I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. 10 For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. 11 May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation—the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ—for this will bring much glory and praise to God.”

“You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”

“For my people have done two evil things: They have abandoned me— the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all! Jeremiah 2:13

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your god.” Martin Luther

James K.A. Smith “Christian worship, we should recognize, is essentially a counterformation to those rival liturgies we are often immersed in, cultural practices that covertly capture our loves and longings, miscalibrating them, orienting us to rival versions of the good life. This is why worship is the heart of discipleship.”