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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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    Jerry Seinfeld
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    Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, Proverbs 17:22 , Exodus 18:17-18 , Hebrews 10:24-25, 2 Corinthians 4:16 , Psalm 92:12-14
    “When you blow out the candles in that 50th birthday cake your first thought is going to be, ‘The fewer people I have anything to do with, the better off I’m going to be.’” *for contrast (and...

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    Stanley Hauerwas
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    It's hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God's new age, a kingdom of surprise.

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    Glen Scrivener
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    The Bible tells us that we’re not a mistake or even just a pleasant surprise. We are wanted. We are the planned offspring of the God of love and he longs to share his life with us.

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    Vernon Grounds
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    Explain the Trinity? We can't even begin. We can only accept it—a mystery, disclosed in Scripture. It should be no surprise that the triune Being of God baffles our finite minds. We should be surp...

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    Brenda Salter McNeil
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    The development of different cultures didn’t take God by surprise! This is what the triune God intended from the beginning. Cultural difference and diversity was always a part of God’s original plan f...

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Luke 2:6-7, Isaiah 53:2, Matthew 2:1-2, Philippians 2:6-8, 1 Corinthians 1:27-29
    If you lacked simplicity, how then should this fall to you that midnight skies are a shine with? God, who stoked at men mild in you now comes to mortal eyes. That he’s not more great—does this surpris...

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    James Hollis
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    Your ego prefers certainty to uncertainty, predictability over surprise, clarity over ambiguity. Your ego always wants to shroud over the barely audible murmurings of the heart.

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    N. T. Wright
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    Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

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    Steven Tyler
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    You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap.

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    Brennan Manning
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    Mystery is spoiled by a word.

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    Paul Chandler
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    Pilgrimage happens when you’re not moving. You learn when you’re unlearning. Revelation comes in gulps that leave you gasping, but sometimes it seems to come in the slow accumulation of small insights...

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    Kenneth E. Bailey
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    1 Corinthians 15:1-28, 1 Corinthians 1:18, Galatians 6:14, Philippians 2:8
    The resurrection affirms that sin and death do not have the last word. At the cross the finest religion of the ancient world (Judaism) and the finest system of justice of the ancient world (Rome), joi...

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    James Merritt
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    Colossians 1:15-17, Matthew 16:13-17, Mark 10:25-27, John 3:1-10, Matthew 5:43-44, Jeremiah 29:13, Hebrews 12:2
    As Tim Stafford writes, Jesus has become “deceptively familiar. People think they know all about him, so they never look at him. When they finally do, they are surprised at what they find. Jesus may s...

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    Randy S. Woodley
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    God has planned since the beginning of time to cultivate diversity among human beings. When people tried to circumvent His plan, God intervened by creating many languages. … [God] is a God of innovati...

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    Bernard Bailey
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    When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they’re not it.

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    F.B. Meyer
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    Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do not be surprised, then, dear child of God, if you are tempted at every step of ...

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    Robert Drummond
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    Now that doctrine of the Trinity often seems a very perplexing subject. And no wonder; I for one should be very much surprised if when the truth about God is reached we should not find something which...

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    Granger E. Westberg
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    Shock is a temporary escape from reality. As long as it is temporary, it is good. But if a person should prefer to remain in this dreamworld rather than face the reality of his loss, obviously it woul...

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    Barbara Kingsolver
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    It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

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    Richard Wilbur
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    Joy’s trick is to supply Dry lips with what can cool and slake, Leaving them dumbstruck also with an ache Nothing can satisfy.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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    Samuel Johnson
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    Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

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    Jack Hyles
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    Happiness is untested delight. Joy is delight tested.

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    Eugene Peterson
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    It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be...

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    Neil Armstrong
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    Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

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    Henry Ward Beecher
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    Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

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    Michael Joseph Brown
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    God's movement is often abrupt and unsettling rather than predictable and settling.

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    Samuel Johnson
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    Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitter for the moment. Cheerfulness keeps up daylight in the mind, filling it with steady and perpetual serenity.
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