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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.
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At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.
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God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.
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We are free to fight sin, and free to win but we must still fight.
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If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.
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Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.
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