Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. —Luke 2:11 In the summer of 1861, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s wife, Frances, died tragically in a fire. That first Christmas without her, he wrote in his diary, “How inexpressibly sad are the holidays.” The next year […]
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John Piper: “We have come to take all the relatively minor benefits of following Jesus and elevated them above the massive, real pleasures of knowing him, loving him, and dying and being with him forever. Everything’s out of proportion in typical American Christianity.” Piper: “I don’t want to be a comfort-seeking, entertainment-addicted, security-craving, approval-desiring Christian.” […]
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