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    Ovid
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    Genesis 50:15-21, 1 Samuel 1:1-20, Lamentations 3:19-24 , John 11:32-35 , Luke 7:36-50, Psalm 56:8
    Truly, it is allowed to weep. By weeping, we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a stream.

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    Leo Tolstoy
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    John 11:1-44, Luke 15:11-32, 1 Samuel 18:1-4, Ruth 1:16-17, Mark 12:30-31, 1 John 4:7-8
    “I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”

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    Ann Voskamp
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    Genesis 6:5-6, Lamentations 3:31-33 , Hosea 11:8-9, John 11:32-35 , Matthew 26:36-39, Psalm 34:18
    Who knows why God allows heartbreak, but the answer must be important enough because God allows His heart to break too.

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
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    1 Peter 1:3, Luke 24:1-12, Mark 16:1-8, Matthew 28:1-10, John 11:25-26, John 20:1-18, 1 Corinthians 15:3-8, 1 Corinthians 15:54-55
    The story of Passion-Tide and Easter is the story of the winning of that freedom and of that victory over the evils of Time. The burden of the guilt is accepted (“He was made Sin”), the last agony of ...

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    Alfred Lord Tennyson
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    John 11:1-45
    When Lazarus left his charnel-cave, ⁠And home to Mary’s house return’d, ⁠Was this demanded—if he yearn’d To hear her weeping by his grave? ‘Where wert thou, brother, those four days?’ ⁠There lives no ...

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    John 11:1-45
    The Convert After one moment when I bowed my head And the whole world turned over and came upright, And I came out where the old road shone white. I walked the ways and heard what all men said, Fore...

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    John Newton
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    Philippians 2:9-11, Matthew 9:21-22, Psalm 147:3, Matthew 8:26-27, Acts 4:12, John 11:43-44, Matthew 9:28-29
    How sweet the name of Jesus sounds, in a believer’s ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, and drives away his fear.

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    Avery Brooke
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    John 8:12-20, Psalm 136:, John 1:1-14, Psalm 27:, Isaiah 60:1-5, Psalm 119:105, Hebrews 1:3, John 11:40, Matthew 4:12-17
    When I looked for God in the light, God was not there. When I faced the unfaceable, I found that I had joined God in the darkness. And so, paradoxically, the darkness had become light.

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    Dane C. Ortlund
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    Isaiah 53:7, John 13:5, John 11:33-35, Mark 10:13-14, Luke 8:44-48
    In the one place in the Bible where the Son of God pulls back the veil and lets us peer way down into the core of who he is, we are not told that he is “austere and demanding in heart.” We are not tol...

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    Terry Tempest Williams
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    Job 1:13-22, Genesis 45:4-8, Ruth 1:16-17 , Mark 5:21-43, John 11:1-44 , Psalm 34:18
    An individual doesn’t get cancer, a family does.

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    Daniel Darling
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    2 Corinthians 5:17, Luke 2:8-14, John 3:3-8, Acts 2:1-4, John 11:38-44, Ezekiel 36:26, Isaiah 9:6-7, John 1:9-13, Colossians 1:19-22, Revelation 21:1-5
    The message of Christmas, then, is not about manufacturing sentimental feelings in vain hopes of a miracle. It’s about believing the reality that God has birthed something new in Jesus and because of ...

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    Daniel P. Schrock
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    Genesis 15:12-17, Exodus 10:21-23, Matthew 26:36-46, Psalm 22:, John 11:1-44
    The dark night is a key part of God’s missional purpose in the world.

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    Alexander Schmemann
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    1 Peter 1:3, Luke 24:1-12, Mark 16:1-8, Matthew 28:1-10, John 11:25-26, John 20:1-18, 1 Corinthians 15:3-8, 1 Corinthians 15:54-55
    Thus on Easter we celebrate Christ’s Resurrection as something that happened and still happens to us. For each one of us received the gift of that new life and the power to accept it and to live by it...

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    Carl Knudsen
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    1 Peter 1:3, Luke 24:1-12, Mark 16:1-8, Matthew 28:1-10, John 11:25-26, John 20:1-8, 1 Corinthians 15:3-8
    The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise.

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    R. C. Sproul
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    Romans 6:4, Colossians 2:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 11:25-26, Ephesians 2:4-5
    God just doesn’t throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of...

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    Stuart Briscoe
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    John 1:1-5, John 14:16-17, Hebrews 1:8-12, John 11:25-26, Galatians 5:22-23, Colossians 1:27, Hebrews 9:15, John 4:13-14, Matthew 28:20
    The spirit of Christmas needs to be superseded by the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Christmas is annual; the Spirit of Christ is eternal. The spirit of Christmas is sentimental; the Spirit of Christ...
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