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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Luke 24:30-31, John 6:51, Matthew 25:35, Hebrews 13:2, Philippians 2:5-8, John 13:14-15, Matthew 26:26-28
    All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every ma...

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    James Boice
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    Luke 22:19-20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Matthew 26:26-28, Acts 2:42, Acts 20:7, John 6:35, 1 Corinthians 10:21
    At the heart of the present significance of the Lord’s Supper is our communion or fellowship with Christ, hence the term “communion service.” In coming to this service the believer comes to meet with ...

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    Ashley Hales
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    Psalm 34:8, Jeremiah 31:25, Matthew 4:4, Revelation 7:16-17, Isaiah 55:1, Psalm 107:9, John 6:35
    Healing begins at the place of hunger.

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    Steve Maraboli
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    Matthew 25:31-46, Matthew 7:12, Luke 10:25-37, Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 18:21-22, Mark 2:1-12, Hebrews 13:2, Matthew 5:7, Acts 4:32-35, John 6:1-14
    Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.

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    Walter Brueggemann
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    Genesis 16:7-13, Hosea 2:14-15, Isaiah 35:1, Matthew 14:13-21, John 6:35, John 6:32-33, Exodus 15:17
    Wilderness” is a place, in biblical rhetoric, where there are no viable life support systems. “Grace” is the occupying generosity of God that redefines the place. The wonder bread, as a gesture of div...

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    Tim Chester
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    Luke 22:19-20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Matthew 26:26-28, Acts 2:42, Acts 20:7, John 6:35
    Every Communion is an embodiment of God’s grace. We hear God’s grace in the words that are spoken. But we also see it, hear it, touch it, and taste it in the bread and wine. God in his kindness, knowi...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Matthew 14:22-33, John 6:1-14, 1 Corinthians 15:9-10, Exodus 3:4, John 15:4-5, 2 Corinthians 9:8, Ephesians 2:8-10
    If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

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    Alexander Schmemann
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    Luke 22:29-30, John 6:35, Revelation 19:9, Matthew 22:2, Luke 14:15, Isaiah 25:6
    Man must eat in order to live; he must take the world into his body and transform it into himself, into flesh and blood. He is indeed that which he eats, and the whole world is presented as one all-em...

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    Pope John Paul II
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    John 6:35-51, Matthew 4:4, Deuteronomy 8:3
    Farmers everywhere provide bread for all humanity, but it is Christ alone who is the bread of life. He alone satisfies the deepest hunger of humanity…. Even if all the physical hunger of the world wer...

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    Susan Springer
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    John 15:5, Colossians 3:16-17, 2 Corinthians 5:18-20, Acts 1:8, Matthew 28:19-20, Matthew 5:14-16, John 6:51
    When he said, “I am the bread of life,” he must have meant he was scattering bits of himself like a trail of crumbs leading us to speak and act and scatter forgiveness in his name to the ends of the e...

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    Kathleen Norris
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    John 6:53-56, Matthew 26:26-28, Colossians 1:19-20, Hebrews 2:14-15, 1 Corinthians 11:24-25, Philippians 2:6-8
    The Incarnation [and I might add Communion] remains a scandal to anyone who wants religion to be a purely spiritual matter, an etherized, bloodless bliss.

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    D. L. Moody
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    James 1:17, Matthew 4:4, John 4:14, Revelation 22:17, Isaiah 55:1, John 6:35, Romans 10:17
    Faith is the gift of God. So is the air, but you have to breathe it; so is bread, but you have to eat it; so is water, but you have to drink it.

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    Frederick Dale Bruner
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    John 6:1-21
    The disciples want to take Jesus aboard, and “immediately” they are already at their destination. Jesus’ spiritual destination, this chapter will teach us again and again, is believing disciples; futu...

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    Hamilton Wright Mabie
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    John 3:16, Romans 5:8, Luke 10:25-37, Acts 1:44-47, Luke 2:10-14, Matthew 28:19-20, John 6:1-14
    The season which Engages the whole World in a Conspiracy of love.

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    Michael Horton
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    Luke 22:19-20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Matthew 26:26-28, Acts 2:42, Acts 20:7, John 6:35, 1 Corinthians 10:21
    It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.

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    Christina Rossetti
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    Proverbs 23:26, Romans 12:1, Matthew 2:11, 2 Corinthians 8:12, Psalm 51:16-17, Micah 6:6-8, John 6:1-13
    What can I give Him Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb; If I were a wise man I would do my part,- Yet what I can give him Give my heart.

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    Eugene Peterson
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    Matthew 6:11, John 15:5, Philippians 4:19, John 6:1-14, Luke 11:5-9, Psalm 34:10, 2 Corinthians 12:9
    When we listen to and follow Jesus, who lived in continual dependence on his Father, we become convinced of our poverty as men and women. We realize our absolute neediness. We are all beggars. Father ...

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    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    John 6:35, 48-51, Matthew 4:4, Deuteronomy 8:3
    Christ knew that by bread alone you cannot animate man. If there were no spiritual life, no ideal of beauty, man would waste away, die, go mad, kill himself or give himself to pagan fantasies. And as ...

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    Pearl S. Buck
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    Isaiah 40:31, Lamentations 3:22-23, Romans 15:13, John 6:51, Jeremiah 17:7-8, Psalm 146:5
    To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

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    N. T. Wright
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    Romans 14:17, John 6:1-14, Matthew 5:7, Matthew 4:18-22, Luke 17:20-21
    The call to ‘believe in the gospel’, or to ‘believe in me’, does not suggest that Jesus was inviting Galilean villagers to embrace a body of doctrine — not even a basic ‘theory’ about ‘salvation’ and ...

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    Walter Brueggemann
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    Psalm 23:1-5, Luke 12:22-34, John 6:1-13 , Isaiah 5:1-3 , 1 Kings 17:7-16
    Jesus reminds us that the wounds of scarcity can be healed only by faith in God’s promise of abundance.

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    Karl Barth
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    Philippians 3:12, Romans 4:13-25, John 6:44, Acts 9:6-3, Ephesians 2:8-9
    Faith means to be apprehended by that which is not ourselves, to be seized by God.

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    Cyril of Alexandria
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    Luke 22:19-20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Matthew 26:26-28, Acts 2:42, Acts 20:7, John 6:35, 1 Corinthians 10:21
    As two pieces of wax fused together make one so he who receives Holy Communion is so united with Christ that Christ is in him and he is in Christ.

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    Lesslie Newbigin
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    John 6:15, Matthew 5:38-39, Matthew 7:24-27, Matthew 15:1-9, Matthew 16:13-17, John 18:36, Luke 4:18-19, Acts 9:1-9, Psalm 1:
    Jesus is understood in the light of the assumptions which control our culture.  When “reason” is invoked as a parallel or supplementary authority to “Scripture” and “tradition,” what is happening is t...

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    Epicurus
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    Exodus 32:1-26 , 1 Kings 22:1-28 , Daniel 6:1-23, John 6:60-69, Acts 5:27-42, Psalm 118:8-9
    I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    John 6:44, Revelation 3:20, Romans 8:30, 1 Peter 2:9, 1 Samuel 3:1-10
    “You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,” said the Lion.

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    Jay Leno
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    Genesis 22:1-14, Exodus 14:21-31 , Daniel 6:16-23 , Luke 15:11-32, John 6:1-14, Psalm 23:
    “Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?”

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    John 6:35, Psalm 27:4, John 4:1-26, Luke 10:38-42, Psalm 139:13-14, Ephesians 3:17-19, Psalm 63:1-4
    What is it then that I love when I love you? Not bodily beauty, and not temporal glory, not the clear shining light, lovely as it is to our eyes, not the sweet melodies of many-moded songs, nor the so...

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    Elisabeth Elliot
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    Philippians 2:5-8, Matthew 26:36-39, Matthew 4:1-11, Matthew 3:13-17, Luke 4:16-21, John 6:5-14, Matthew 17:1-5
    Jesus loved the will of His Father. He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as He walked and worked here on earth, fulfilling moment by moment His...

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    Brennan Manning
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    Acts 9:1-19, John 4:1-26, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 5:1-11, John 6:44, Ephesians 2:8-9, Matthew 4:19
    We cannot will ourselves to accept grace. There are no magic words, preset formulas, or esoteric rites of passage. Only Jesus Christ sets us free from indecision. The Scriptures offer no other basis f...
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