Embracing the Difficult Manger
To follow in the footsteps of Jesus is to deliberately place ourselves in positions we will find uncomfortable, our own difficult mangers.
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The most beautiful part of Christmas is that it is above all an announcement to the world that God is with us.
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There is only one true Messiah, one Savior who takes away the sins of the world and is bringing about the restoration of all things, and his name is Jesus.
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Translating literally as “god from the machine,” deus ex machina refers to an overly convenient resolution to the plot.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
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Bishop Myriel tells Valjean, “Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.”
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Ancient Hebrew does not have the benefit of the punctuation that is so common to us who write in English or other Latin-based languages.
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Within the first few pages of Augustine’s autobiographical classic, Confessions, the early church father ruminates on what it means that God is omnipresent.
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