"Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the stranger and the unwanted child, care for the ill, love your enemies."
- Unknown
Inspiration
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A little boy forgot his lines in a Sunday School presentation.
His mother, sitting in the front row to prompt him, gestured and formed the words silently with her lips, but it didn't help. Her son's memory was blank.
Finally, she leaned forward and whispered the cue, "I am the light of the world."
The child beamed proudly and with great feeling and a loud, clear voice said,
"My mom is the light of the world."
- Jesus is the Light of the world!
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Tiny, helpless
swaddled in hay
washed, clothed, fed
carried each day.
Poverty, heat
occupied land
Romans, cruel Herod
Palestine sand.
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“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes, and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1943
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"Christ's willingness to come to earth was not motivated by what He saw inside of us, but by what was inside of Him."
- Paul David Tripp
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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