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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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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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Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

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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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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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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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Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is ...more

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Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness 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