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You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
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Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.
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Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.
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You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.
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