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Christmas and celebrities

The incarnation, which we celebrate this week, is the antithesis of all motives to lift ourselves up.

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occupy our street

We should love, mentor and hire a generation of young people who need more skills than we’ve taught them, more hope than we’ve given them, and more character than we’ve shown them.

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Jesus loves the little children

My wife used to teach a neighborhood Bible study for kids in which none of the kids knew a single Christmas carol or had ever read a Bible. In fact, they could barely read at all.

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a love story retold

The measure of a man’s marriage is the degree to which his wife flourishes under his love.

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you’re not from here, are you?

Katie and I just spent a week helping run a day camp for inner city kids in Chicago. We learned a couple of things.

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The Garden Tomb, also known as Gordan's Calvary.

coda: a word of responsibility

It’s time to celebrate the empty tomb.

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a word of power, # 7

For my good, and yours, he chose this death.

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a word of rest, #6

It was the Father’s will to see him pierced by nails.

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a word of need, #5

Love is not a word. It is a deed.

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a word of loneliness, #4

The pain that Jesus felt was not the nails.

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