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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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We are above all things loved--that is the good news of the gospel--and loved not just the way we turn up on Sundays in our best clothes and on our be...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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In answer, the news of the Gospel is that extraordinary things happen. ... Lear goes berserk on a heath but comes out of it for a few brief hours ever...more

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Let the preacher tell the truth. Let him make audible the silence of the news of the world with the sound turned off so that in the silence we can hea...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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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's c...more

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A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

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To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. Whe...more