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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without...more

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To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

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To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dyin...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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They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a m...more

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God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible ...more

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God is the comic shepherd who gets more of a kick out of that one lost sheep once he finds it again than out of the ninety and nine who had the good s...more

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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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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