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    Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
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    Psalm 113:7-8, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Luke 1:52-53, Matthew 11:25, Luke 6:20, Matthew 5:3, James 2:5
    The claim here is not that the poor are inherently more righteous or sanctified than the rich. There is no place in the Bible that indicates that poverty is a desirable state or that material things a...

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    John 1:1-15, Isaiah 9:2, Luke 1:78-79, Philippians 2:6-7, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Micah 5:2, Matthew 1:23
    Just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil an...

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    Timothy Keller
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    Romans 12:1, Luke 1:38, Luke 5:1-11, Mark 10:17-27, Genesis 22:1-18, Ephesians 2:10
    I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me through....

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    James I. Packer
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    Luke 1:26-38, Luke 2:1-7, John 1:14, Luke 2:10-11, Philippians 2:5-8, John 10:14-18, Isaiah 53:4-5, Matthew 20:17-19, Mark 15:33-39, 1 Peter 1:3-4
    The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable s...

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    E. B. White
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    Luke 2:6-7, Luke 2:8-14, Luke 1:46-55, Matthew 2:1-12, Isaiah 53:2-3, Matthew 6:19-21, John 2:13-16, 1 Samuel 16:7, Philippians 4:11-13, Mark 10:17-22
    To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.

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    A. W. Tozer
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    Matthew 17:20, Matthew 19:20, Mark 10:27, Luke 1:37, Luke 18:27, Colossians 3:23-24, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Ephesians 2:10, Philippians 4:13, Philippians 2:13
    God is looking for people through whom He can do the impossible. What a pity that we plan only the things we can do by ourselves.

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    George Muller
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    Luke 1:37, Jeremiah 32:27, Mark 11:23-24, Romans 4:20-21, Ephesians 3:20-21, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Hebrews 11:1
    Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man’s power ends.

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    Daniel J. Simundson
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    Micah 5:2, Luke 1:46-48, Matthew 2:1-12, Exodus 3:11, Judges 6:15
    The small size of Bethlehem reminds one of a common biblical theme: When God is about to do something great, human estimates of status, size, power, and influence are completely irrelevant. In fact, G...

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    Clement of Alexandria
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    Hebrews 11:8-10, Luke 1:38, Matthew 21:22 , Isaiah 40:31, Philippians 1:6, James 1:2-4
    Faith is a voluntary anticipation.

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    Karl Barth
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    Luke 1:46-55, Acts 9:, 1 Timothy 1:12-17, 2 Samuel 7:18-22, 1 Samuel 2:1-10, Luke 17:11-19, Psalm 100:4-5
    Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Grace evokes gratitude like the voice an echo. Gratitude follows grace like thunder lightning.

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    Helen Keller
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    Matthew 17:20, Luke 1:37, Ephesians 3:20, Philippians 4:13, Mark 11:24, 2 Corinthians 4:18
    Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:21, John 2:5, Luke 1:45, Luke 1:39-40, Luke 1:34, Luke 1:38
    Mary was a nobody who became greater than everybody, simply because God came to her and she responded in the humblest possible way. She reasoned, she doubted, she surrendered, she connected with other...

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    Enuma Okoro
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    Luke 1:1-14, Isaiah 61:1-3, Luke 1:68-69, Isaiah 9:2, Luke 2:10-11
    The Advent story we associate with the joy of Christmas actually begins with deep sorrow and longing [the story of Elizabeth and Zechariah]. But thankfully, in the kingdom of God there is always more ...

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    Jonathan Walton
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    Micah 6:8, James 2:8, Romans 12:2, Luke 1:18-19, Matthew 6:33
    Martin Luther King was shot because he preached and practiced allegiance to a different kingdom and rigorously opposed our present system.

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    K.J. Ramsey
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    Genesis 12:1-3 , Numbers 6:22-27, Ruth 2:8-12, Luke 1:39-45, Psalm 5:1-12 , Psalm 133:1-3
    To bless is to bridge. A blessing is a bridge to belonging, built right in the place we feel separated from hope. Words of blessing bring us back to the beautiful truth of being human: we belong to on...

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    James Merritt
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    Matthew 1:, Luke 1:26-38, 2 Samuel 11:12, Ruth 1:4, Joshua 2:
    Through Jesus’s family tree, God puts his grace on display. God is reminding us that he can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves: pick up broken pieces and put them together, take broken lives an...

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    Christopher L. Webber
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    John 3:16, Matthew 1:23, John 1:1-10, Luke 1:68-69, Isaiah 61:1
    Advent is a coming, not our coming to God, but his to us. We cannot come to God, he is beyond our reach; but he can come to us, for we are not beneath his mercy.

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    Thomas Aquinas
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    1 Corinthians 1:18-19, Acts 9:1-19, Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 1:26-38, Romans 11:33-34, John 1:14
    Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

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    Michael Spencer
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    John 1:14, Luke 1:26-38, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 4:18-19, Romans 5:8, 1 Corinthians 15:20-22, 2 Corinthians 5:18-19
    Without the incarnation, Christianity isn't even a very good story, and most sadly, it means nothing. "Be nice to one another" is not a message that can give my life meaning, assure me o...

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    Jay Leno
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    Isaiah 7:14, Luke 1:26-38, Micah 5:2, Matthew 2:1-10, Matthew 1:18-24, Luke 2:25-35, Matthew 2:13-15, Luke 2:8-14, John 1:14, Matthew 2:14-23
    The atheists have produced a Christmas play. It’s called Coincidence on Thirty-Fourth Street.

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    James I. Packer
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    Luke 2:1-7, John 1:14, Luke 1:26-38, Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:22-35, Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 2:13-15
    The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fic...

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    Thomas Merton
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    Job 38:1-7, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Genesis 32:22-32, Luke 1:26-38, Matthew 16:13-17, Psalm 8:3-4
    It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so that the contemplative is at the same time, question and answer.

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    Luci Shaw
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    Luke 1:30-33, Isaiah 7:14, Hebrews 2:14-15, Luke 1:38, Luke 2:19
    And when she, birth-giver— her ordinary vision arrowed down between her legs, through pain and straw, to her son’s dark, slime-streaked hair, to his very skin, red with the struggle of being born—she ...

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    Anne Rice
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    Job 38:1-7, Isaiah 29:13-16 , Proverbs 14:12, Luke 1:1-4 , 2 Peter 1:16-21, Psalm 19:1-4
    Some books were no more than assumptions piled on assumptions…. Conclusions were reached on the basis of little or no data at all…. The whole case for the nondivine Jesus who stumbled into Jerusalem a...

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    David Maraniss
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    Deuteronomy 6:6-7, Exodus 12:24-27, Joshua 4:6-7, Psalm 78:2-4 , Luke 1:1-4, 2 Timothy 2:2
    Myth becomes myth not in the living but in the retelling.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 1:14, Revelation 22:12, Hebrews 13:8, Galatians 4:4-5, Micah 5:2
    Christmas is fast approaching. And now that Christ has aroused our seasonal expectations, he’ll soon fulfill them all!

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    Billy Graham
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    Luke 2:1-7, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:8-20, John 1:14, Isaiah 9:6-7, Luke 2:22-32, Luke 1:26-38, Isaiah 7:14, John 8:12, Ephesians 2:19-22
    Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.

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    Pope Paul VI
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    Luke 1:26-38, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-14, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:25-35, John 1:14, Philippians 2:5-8, Matthew 3:13-17, John 3:1-21, Matthew 17:1-8
    We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Psalm 46:10, Isaiah 9:2, Luke 1:78-79, John 1:5
    In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is far off in the deeps of it somewhere a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to lis...

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    Author
    Augustine of Hippo
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    Luke 1:26-38, Luke 2:6-7, John 1:1-3, 14, Luke 2:8-20, Colossians 1:15-17, Luke 2:22-35, Philippians 2:6-7
    He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy, He the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
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