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rethink christmasf o c u s

What could be worse than being born without sight?  Being born with sight and no vision.

Helen Keller

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YOU HAVE JUST ENOUGH TIME TO DO GOD’S WILL

When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners.

Romans 5.6

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This is how the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph.

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Matthew 1.18

But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Matthew 1.18

Joseph, her fiancé, was a good man and did not want to disgrace her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement quietly.

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Matthew 1.19

As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.

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Matthew 1.20

“Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife.

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Matthew 1.20

For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit.

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Matthew 1.20

And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

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Matthew 1.21

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You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

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Psalm 139.13

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

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Psalm 139.14

You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

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Psalm 139.15

You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book.

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Psalm 139.16

Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.

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Psalm 139.16

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All that is not eternal is eternally useless.

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C.S. Lewis

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For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

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Ephesians 2.10

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Is life to be defined by what I pursue, or must my pursuit be defined by what life was meant to be?

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Ravi Zacharias

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Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

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Philippians 3.12

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

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Philippians 3.13

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

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Philippians 3.14

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Life can be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards.

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Soren Kiergegaard

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If you look at the world, you'll be distressed.  If you look within, you'll be depressed.  But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest.

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Corrie Ten Boom

rethink christmasf o c u s

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