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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never r...more

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Matthew lists Rahab as one of the ancestresses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5), and that may be one reason why there was something about free-w...more

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God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floatin...more

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Remember that the lives of other people are not your business. They are their business. They are God's business because they all have God whether they...more

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Is it true, what Jesus believed, this Truth that he died for and lived for? Maybe the only way to know finally this side of falling off that precipice...more

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... the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both...

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Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of ...more

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It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that he had risen from the dead was ...more

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Once we have seen Him in a stable, we can never be sure where He will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humilia...more

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If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And of course that is the only way it could...more

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Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat wh...more

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Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

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And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just th...more

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For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not ho...more

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We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in ...more