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Advent creates people, new people.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.
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Comfortable Desire Difficult Feeling Home People
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
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Death Man Spiritual
Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.
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Darkness Eyes God Leaving Light Ourselves
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
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Journey Travel
This is the end. For me the beginning of life.
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Beginning End Life Myself
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
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Community Ourselves Religious
My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
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Forgiveness God Love Myself Past Religious Sin
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.
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Goodness Job Seek
It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
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Deep Himself Religious
Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
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Action Death Love Man Old Reflection
Not to speak is to speak.
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Deep One Liner Talk
I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains – or spiritual trial? Once they’re over, the world looks quite a different place again.
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Different Growth Myself Oppression Pain Place Quite Reason Spiritual World
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
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Believe God Life Yourself
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
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Discipline God Religious
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.
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God Ourselves Path People
If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don’t believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.
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Believe Hope Religious Yourself

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