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    Phillip Yancey
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    Luke 2:6-7, Philippians 2:6-7, Matthew 2:1-12, Mark 5:25-34, Matthew 5:3-10, Micah 6:8, Isaiah 61:1
    Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.

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    Leigh Newton
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    Luke 2:6-7, Isaiah 9:6, Philippians 2:6-7, Luke 4:18-19, Mark 4:35-41, Colossians 1:15-17, Hebrews 1:3
    ‘Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’, Such a dainty, fragile child, But the one we know is bold and strong We can hear that in your dying song, Little boy, little boy. ‘Just a boy of flesh and b...

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    Larry Libby
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    Luke 2:8-14, Luke 2:1-7, Isaiah 9:6-7, Isaiah 7:14, Luke 1:46-55, Micah 5:2, John 1:14, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:25-38, John 10:10-11
    Late on a sleepy, star-spangled night, those angels peeled back the sky just like you would tear open a sparkling Christmas present. Then, with light and joy pouring out of Heaven like water through a...

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Luke 2:10-11, John 1:4-5, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Matthew 5:14-16, Acts 9:1-22, Hebrews 13:8, Revelation 7:9-10
    It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did ... for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of ...

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    Robert Herrick
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    Luke 2:13-14, Luke 1:46-49, Luke 2:20, Matthew 2:11, Isaiah 9:6-7, Revelation 5:9-10
    What sweeter music can we bring, Then a Caroll, for to sing The birth of this our heavenly king?

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    O.P. Kretzmann
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    Luke 2:6-7, Philippians 2:6-8, Isaiah 53:2-3, Micah 5:2, Exodus 2:1-10, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Revelation 21:3-4
    One of our troubles, is that we have romanticized and sentimentalized the stable and the manger…We see them through the warm glow of our comfortable homes, our candles and our well-fed bodies....Perha...

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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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    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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    Augustine of Hippo
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    John 1:1-4, Philippians 2:6-8, Colossians 1:16-17, Isaiah 7:14, Micah 5:12, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Luke 2:11-12
    He by whom all things were made was made one of all things. The Son of God by the Father without a mother became the Son of man by a mother without a father. The Word Who is God before all time became...

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    Eugene Peterson
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    Exodus 25:8, 1 Kings 8:10-13, Isaiah 7:14 , John 1:14, Luke 2:8-20, Psalm 139:7-10
    The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    John 1:14, Luke 2:4-7, Matthew 4:1-2, John 4:6-7, Mark 4:38-39, John 4:6
    Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; th...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Isaiah 9:6, Luke 2:10-12, Micah 5:2, Matthew 2:1-11
    "Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world."

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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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    Karl Barth
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    Luke 1:26-38, Luke 2:1-7, John 1:14, Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:18-25, Matthew 1:1-17, Romans 5:18-19
    The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus, his “climbin...

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    N. T. Wright
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    Matthew 6:33, Luke 2:16-19, Mark 1:15 , Isaiah 9:6, John 1:15, Matthew 1:23, Colossians 1:15-17
    The kingdom of the Christ-child gets to work when we stop, and pause, and look in wonder once more at the baby lying in the manger, and like Mary ponder in our hearts what it all means. Only through d...

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    Alan Redpath
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    Luke 2:11, Isaiah 9:6, Revelation 19:11-16, Matthew 24:44, Titus 2:13
    The immense step from the Babe at Bethlehem to the living, reigning triumphant Lord Jesus, returning to earth for his own people--that is the glorious truth proclaimed throughout Scripture. As the bel...

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    Lucinda Franks
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    Matthew 2:1-2, Luke 2:8-20, Matthew 2:11, John 1:14, John 4:9-10, Micah 5:2, Luke 2:4-7
    Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: A cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, th...

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    R. C. Sproul
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    John 1:14 , Philippians 2:6-7, Isaiah 7:14, Luke 2:10-11, 1 Timothy 3:16, Galatians 4:4 , Isaiah 7:14
    What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself.

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    Ben Jonson
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    John 1:9, Luke 2:15-20, John 8:12, Hebrews 1:6, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Psalm 27:1, Luke 2:25-35
    I sing the birth was born tonight, The author both of life and light, The angels so did sound it; And like the ravished shepherds Said, Who saw the light, and were afraid, Yet sarched, and tru they fo...

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    Madeleine L'Engle
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    Luke 2:1-3, Micah 5:2, John 1:9-11, Isaiah 9:2, Philippians 2:6-8, Matthew 2:13-15, John 4:9-10
    This is no time for a child to be born, With the earth betrayed by war & hate And a comet slashing the sky to warn That time runs out & the sun burns late. That was no time for a child to be b...

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    John Piper
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    John 3:16-17, John 1:14, Romans 5:8-9, Matthew 1:23, 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, Romans 8:1, Luke 2:8-14, Luke 15:11-32, Psalm 16:11, Revelation 21:3-4
    Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

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    Frederick Buechner
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    John 1:14, Philippians 2:6-8, Luke 2:6-7, 1 Corinthians 1:27-29, Matthew 18:2-4
    The incarnation is a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers... Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by i...

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    Ralph W. Sockman
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    Micah 5:2, Luke 2:4-7, Galatians 4:4-5, Isaiah 9:6-7, Matthew 2:9-11, Acts 4:11-12, Luke 2:25-32
    The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.

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    James I. Packer
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    John 1:14, Luke 1:26-38, Luke 2:1-7, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:8-20, Philippians 2:6-8
    It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this tr...

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    Mother Teresa
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    John 1:14, Luke 2:10-11, Matthew 4:17, Luke 4:18-21, Matthew 28:18, Matthew 17:1-9, Luke 24:13-35
    As soon as we take the enfleshment of God, the incarnation which, for Christians, is represented by the person of Jesus Christ, then we start taking things seriously.

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    Thomas Chatterton
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    Philippians 2:6-7, Isaiah 53:3, Luke 2:7, Revelation 5:11-12, Isaiah 9:2, Matthew 2:9-11, Psalm 98:4-6
    How shall we celebrate the day, When God appear’d in mortal clay; The mark of worldly scorn; When the Archangels heavenly lays, Attempted the Redeemer’s Praise And hailed Salvation’s Morn.

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    Charles Wesley
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    Luke 2:13-14, Isaiah 9:6-7, Ephesians 2:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, Romans 5:10-11
    Hark the herald angels sing, "Glory to the new-born king." Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!"

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    Thomas Merton
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    Luke 2:8-12, Luke 2:16-18, Isaiah 1:3, Matthew 2:4-6, 1 Corinthians 1:27-29, Psalm 148:10-13
    There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.

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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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    Source Unknown
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    John 1:14, Philippians 2:6-8, John 3:16, Luke 2:10-11, 1 Corinthians 15:54-55, Revelation 21:3-4
    Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal man may live in eternity.
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