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Our plight was hopeless. No amount of New Year’s resolutions, pious good intentions or attempts to drag our moral and spiritual lives Godward was ever going to amount to anything. When we were complete, abject and utter failures, God moved. God in Christ entered the direst pit of corruptible humanity. Christ laid hold of lost humankind in order to offer us "holy and blameless before him in love" (Ephesians 1:4). Andrew Purves, If it is painful for you to criticize your friends you are safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. Alice Duer Miller If you don’t want anyone to know, don’t do it. Chinese proverb Why are large champagne bottles
given biblical names? According to champagne expert Francois Bonai,
winemakers in Bordeaux have been using the name "Jeroboam" for the
four-bottle size since at least 1725. It is presumed they selected the name
because Jeroboam, who ruled Israel from 931-910 B.C. is referred to as "a
man of great worth." The practice was continued with other kings and
patriarchs: Rehoboam (six bottles), Methuselah (12 bottles), Balthazar (16
bottles) and Nebuchadnezzar (20 bottles). At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look. At 45 they are caves in which we hide. F. Scott Fitzgerald The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. Elie Weisel Accept that some days you are the
It seems to me that we would be able to avoid the overly romantic sentimentalizing of Christmas if we remember that it is more fully a festival of the Father, the One who gave us the unfathomable gift of his Son. Christmas is not a cute baby in a cozy stable, but the harsh reality that God, the Creator of the whole universe, so condescended as to give us his Son as a creature in the flesh. Imagine if a shoemaker would become a shoe! Marva Dawn, This is the way in which we are surely to interpret the Incarnation, in which God has drawn so near to man and drawn man so near to himself in Jesus that they are perfectly at one. Thomas Torrance, In Jesus Christ, God himself has become the "neighbor" to Adam through his own humanity. The incarnation is the embodiment of God as the true form of humanity. Ray Anderson, Ambassador College of Christian Ministry
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