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  1. Timothy J. Keller _ Hidden Christmas: The

    Over and over and over again God says, "I will choose Nazareth, not Jerusalem. I will choose the girl nobody wants. I will choose the boy everybody has forgotten." Why? Is it just that God likes underdogs? No. He is telling us something about salvation itself. Every other religion and moral philosophy tells you to summon up all of your strength and live as you ought. Therefore, they appeal to the strong, to the people who can pull it together, the people who can "summon up the blood." Only Jesus says, "I have come for the weak. I have come for those who admit they are weak. I will save them not by what they do but through what I do.
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  2. Timothy J. Keller _ Hidden Christmas: The

    Taking the message into my heart means not just to interpret it but to let it affect me deeply. It means, in a sense, preaching to myself, reminding myself of the preciousness, the value, the wonder, and the power of the particular truth I am treasuring.
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  3. Timothy J. Keller _ Hidden Christmas: The

    If the distance between the Earth and the sun-ninety-three million miles-was no more than the thickness of a sheet of paper, then the distance from the Earth to the nearest star would be a stack of papers seventy feet high; the diameter of the Milky Way would be a stack of paper over three hundred miles high. Keep in mind that there are more galaxies in the universe than we can number. There are more, it seems, than dust specks in the air or grains of sand on the seashores. Now, if Jesus Christ holds all this together with just a word of his power {Hebrews 1:3}-is he the kind of person you ask into your life to be your assistant?
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  4. Timothy J. Keller _ Hidden Christmas: The

    First, are you willing to obey anything the Bible clearly says to do, whether you like it or not? Second, are you willing to trust God in anything he sends into your life, whether you understand it or not?
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  5. Timothy J. Keller _ Hidden Christmas: The

    According to the Bible, the evil of the world ultimately stems from the self-centeredness, self-righteousness, and self-absorption of every human heart.
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  6. Timothy J. Keller _ Hidden Christmas: The

    Fear always haunts and then overwhelms you when you seek to save yourself, to earn your own sense of worth, and to construct your own identity.
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  7. Timothy J. Keller _ Hidden Christmas: The

    you hold either position, however, your life will be characterized by fear and insecurity, because you will never feel like you are being quite good enough; or it will be marked by pride and disdain for other people if you feel like you actually have been good enough; or it will be marked by self-loathing if you feel you have failed. You may find yourself whiplashed back and forth between two or more of these ways of life.
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  8. Timothy J. Keller _ Hidden Christmas: The

    The angel literally says, "Do not be fearing. Be perceiving. For I am telling you the Gospel." This is the principle-behold and you won't be afraid. If you take time to comprehend {behold} what is in the Gospel message, it will remove the fear that has dominated and darkened your life. To the degree you truly behold-gaze at, grasp, relish, internalize, rejoice in-the Gospel, to that degree the fears of your life will be undermined.
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  9. Timothy J. Keller _ Hidden Christmas: The

    Augustine believed that even when you seem to be enjoying something else, God is the actual source of your joy. The thing you love is from him and is lovely because it bears his signature. All joy is really found in God, and anything you do enjoy is derivative, because what you are really looking for is him, whether you know it or not.
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  10. Timothy J. Keller _ Hidden Christmas: The

    God became man; the divine Son became a Jew; the Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, unable to do more than lie and stare and wriggle and make noises, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. . . . The babyhood of the Son of God was a reality. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation."
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  11. Timothy J. Keller _ Hidden Christmas: The

    people who are excluded by culture, excluded by respectable society, and even excluded by the law of God can be brought in to Jesus' family. It doesn't matter your pedigree, it doesn't matter what you have done, it doesn't matter whether you have killed people. If you repent and believe in him, the grace of Jesus Christ can cover your sin and unite you with him. In ancient times there was a concept of "ceremonial uncleanness." If you wanted to stay holy, or respectable, or good, you had to avoid contact with the unholy. The unholiness was considered to be "contagious," as it were, and so you had to stay separate. But Jesus turns that around. His holiness and goodness cannot be contaminated by contact with us. Rather his holiness infects us by our contact with him.
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  12. Timothy J. Keller _ Hidden Christmas: The

    The Gospel, because it is a true story, means all the best stories will be proved, in the ultimate sense, true. THE
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