Let’s face it — admitting one’s faults or errors just doesn’t come easy to many, even maybe to most.
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We are all invited into the journey of the cross
And, no doubt — year after year, trial after trial, sorrow after sorrow, challenge after challenge — the journey just gets better and deeper, and it ironically and wonderfully produces more love.
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Has the cross done what it was prophetically promised to do?
Has it, indeed, turned hearts back to our fathers and our fathers to us; back to our mothers and our mothers to us. Back to our brothers and our sisters, and even back to ourselves? One wonders.
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Why are you terrified?
Maybe this God, in all kinds of ways and through all kinds of things — and in both good and bad times, and in joy and pain and sorrow — maybe this God truly has come to his people.
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Let yourself be challenged by grace
There will be a crib, and wondrous visitors; and eyes and ears and hearts being opened. And love being poured out — and ugly hatreds, too.
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God is in love with us
We’re movin’ on up, to the east side, and the north side, and the forever side to love with no limits and no conditions, and forever!
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The human gets found by the divine
We are waiting for the celebration of Christmas when we can and will find our Messiah, our Savior, our Christ.
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God is with us!
The story of the promise to be fulfilled as the word is spoken into a birthed human, and in the most dramatic way possible, God becomes hu-man (and therefore, also hu-woman).
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What am I looking for?
If a people SAY they believe in God but then don’t let this God into their lives — turn away, sin and sin and sin — do they not warrant the consequences of their turning away?
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Do the right thing
Actually, it seems a little strange, weird — and ugly, even — that God calls Jacob a worm and Israel a maggot. It also is always a little difficult to hear about the violence, war, conquering, and other social upheaval that God would create.
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