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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
Ted Dekker
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Ted Dekker
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
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Theodore R. Dekker
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Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.
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There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.
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I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.
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It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.
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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
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You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.
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