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So God throws open the door of this world—and enters as a baby. As the most vulnerable imaginable. Because He wants unimaginable intimacy with you. What religion ever had a god that wanted such intimacy with us that He came with such vulnerability to us? What God ever came so tender we could touch Him? So fragile that we could break Him? So vulnerable that His bare, beating heart could be hurt? Only the One who loves you to death.

Ann Voskamp, The Greatest Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas
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Like Advent itself, hope is not something we conjure up ourselves by wishful thinking. It’s not something we work at by focusing on the positive and avoiding the negative. It doesn’t spring from optimism that the world will get better by human effort. It’s rooted in the promise of God’s faithfulness…. Only because God comes to us can we go to God. Only because God comes to us can we have hope we can go to God.

George Mason

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I keep asking God,
“You know this hurts, right?”
As if He is unaware that this season is difficult for me.
As if He doesn’t know everything about me, every last detail.
As if He doesn’t know His very own daughter’s feelings.
As if my reminding Him of how uncomfortable this is, how much pain my heart is in, is going to change His plan for my good and His best for me.

Real fellowship is so much more than just showing up at services. It is experiencing life together. It includes unselfish loving, honest sharing, practical serving, sacrificial giving, sympathetic comforting, and all the other “one another” commands found in the New Testament. When it comes to fellowship, size matters: smaller is better. You can worship with a crowd, but you can’t fellowship with one.

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