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“I do not want people to come to Jesus because of the crisis of the moment. That is both shallow and horribly reactionary. Rather, I would want people to allow the crisis of the moment to show them all of the reasons why not coming to Jesus before the crisis was the real crisis.”

“I have sat in the impossible places that existed leagues beyond the reach of the prose of men, the touch of friends, and the encouragement of family. And in these horribly famished places where hope languished and desperation ruled, I eventually fell to exhaustion and laid my life in the frigid embrace of an awaiting death only to find that instead I had fallen into the warm hands of a loving God. And while these words are the prose of yet another man, the hands that they speak of are not.”

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“God sees the child He created in the fool that sees neither.”

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“If I can’t find something worthwhile in my own reflection, how am I ever going to see anything worthwhile in the face of another? Maybe I can solve all of this by seeing the face of Jesus in everyone, starting with myself.”

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“Christmas is God deciding to find people who didn’t want to be found but could not afford not to be found.”

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“It’s not ‘time’ for God, for there was never a time that was not a time for Him. What it’s ‘time’ for is our realization that we’ve needed Him all the time and we just never took the time to realize that.”

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“At those moments when life caves in and all falls dark, the space that I’ve created between myself and God feels impossibly vast. Yet, if I seek Him I will turn and suddenly find that the vastness I thought to be there was nothing more than the ‘assumption’ of His absence.”

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“My prayer is that none of us would ever find ourselves at the bottom of a hole looking up, but if we happen to find ourselves there my prayer would be that God would be at the top of the hole reminding us that He’s also at the bottom.”

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“I have found that unless I surrender every part of my life to God every part of my day, I will end up missing most every part of my life every day of my life.”

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“It is when I finally come to realize that the sum total of ‘who I am’ is less than what I need to save ‘who I am’ that I have then created space for God to be the great “I AM WHO I AM.”

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“The greatest rescue mission is to rescue ourselves from the belief that we don’t need to be rescued.”

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“I find it ingenious that God stepped into this world in the lowest of all places so that He can relate to poorest of all people. And while our wealth might smugly chide us into believing that we are not those people, the rancid impoverishment of our souls would tell us that we are exactly those people. And when we understand that, Christmas makes sense and we are no longer poor.”

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“As I look at my life, I might ask “Who is the person that represents the greatest threat to me?” And if I happen to have a mirror around somewhere, I can rather quickly answer that question.”

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“Has my life been cheated by the shortness of the time afforded me, or is it possible that the greater part of my life has been saved for a time where there is no time?”

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“I don’t have it within me to do what God does for me. That’s why he’s God and I’m not.”

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“It was at the point where I was convinced of my own death that God finally convinced me of His life. And I stand amazed that my death birthed His life.”

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“God reached in because I had so thoroughly destroyed my life that I could not find a single gap in the carnage through which I could reach out.”

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“To think that God pens history solely as a retelling of ‘what was’ is to miss the extraordinary fact that history is God’s initiation to ‘what can be.’ And Christmas is one of the greatest moments in history which renders it one of the greatest invitations of our life.”

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“I incessantly wallow in the ‘muck and mire’ of the terrible messes that I have made. And when I realize that God has long ago removed all the ‘muck and mire,’ I suddenly understand that the only wallowing that’s going on is in my head.”

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“Of all the ways that God could show up, He showed up by coming down. Therefore, despite the shortness of my reach it is never outside the length of His grasp.”

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“We have equated an end with the idea of ‘termination’ when in fact an end is the beginning of ‘germination.”

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“If Christmas is not everything that it says it is, neither is anything else.”

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“The reason some of us struggle with Christmas is that it refuses to give us what we ‘want’ because it recognizes that doing so sacrifices that which we ‘need.’ And we can be confidently assured that Christmas will never stoop to such an atrocity as this.”

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“Christmas is the beginning of a wonderfully tumultuous story of God coming on tip-toe in order to turn the world on it’s head.”

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“The pit is of my own making. The rescue is of God's love. And the deliverance is my acceptance of both.”

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“At the point that I’ve given up being found by God is the point that I’m most ready to be found by Him.”

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“To be rescued rather painfully points out the fact that we don’t have the resources to rescue ourselves. Thanks to the stubbornness of our stale pride we choose to refuse rescue and embrace anguish, which means that the greatest thing that we need to be rescued from is ourselves.”

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“Jesus was born in a borrowed barn, he was buried in a borrowed tomb, and in-between it all he borrowed mankind’s sin with the intent of never returning it.”

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“To die for the very thing that you’re saving is far less a death and far more what it is to live.”

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“What in the world would drive an author to write his own death into the script, and then sentence himself to that very death by turning his fiction into fact? The fact is, you and I are that ‘what the world.”

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“I look at a baby born in a manger and I ask, “Would I be willing to do that?” And the fact that I’m not evidences the need for Christmas.”

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“Have we not considered that the greatest sacrifices imaginable arise from the greatest love conceivable which results in the greatest transformations possible. And if this is not our understanding of Christmas, we have no Christmas.”

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“I have made myself my own first-responder. And if I’m really all that good, why am I still laying at the scene of the accident?”

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“I tell myself that I am what I need. But it is quite evident that what I need is what I’m not. And the greatest thing I’m not is God.”

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“Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don’t need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all.”

“In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.”

“Easter is the road upon which detours die and consequences find no footing.”

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“Having spent the morning weeding, pruning and bringing the garden to near perfection, I took a moment to sit on the old garden bench to catch my breath, brush the dirt from my hands, and wipe the sweat from my brow. And scanning my handiwork, I realized that I did not make the garden beautiful. Rather, I just cleared away everything that had kept the beauty from being seen. And I thought, should we not do the same with our souls?”

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“My limitations abruptly define the frighteningly negligible extent of my existence, yet my soul utterly perishes if bound by those very same limits. And does this not somehow evidence both the reality of and need for God?”

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“If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers.”

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“If I have to create space for something to enter my life by asking God to leave my life, maybe what I’ve actually done is taken leave of my senses.”

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“God did not wait for us to believe in ourselves before He acted out of His belief in us.”

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“Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.”

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“Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life.”

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“Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning.”

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“There are an incalculable number of things within me that I frantically wish to be emptied of, and despite my most earnest efforts to remove them, they remain. And it is Easter that reminds me that God empties out tombs.”

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“We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.”

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