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“Having God at the center imposes certain limits on our behavior.”
― Christianity Today, A Light Has Dawned: Meditations on Advent and Christmas

“we cannot truly sing “Joy to the World” unless we have thoroughly rehearsed “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.”
― Christianity Today, A Light Has Dawned: Meditations on Advent and Christmas

“Many people spend their lives like those wise men, looking for God in exotic spiritual experiences, not realizing that the extraordinary truth is under their noses.”
― Christianity Today, A Light Has Dawned: Meditations on Advent and Christmas

“Were we designed to witness the goodness all around us, and to protect and nourish it? Just as “the environment” is a context, not an issue, so is “consumption.” It defines at the moment who we are—and who we aren’t.”
― Christianity Today, A Light Has Dawned: Meditations on Advent and Christmas

“We may not long for judgment, but somewhere inside us we believe in it.”
― Christianity Today, A Light Has Dawned: Meditations on Advent and Christmas

“Romans 12:2New King James Version (NKJV)
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
― Christian Bible Studies

“Consumption is an issue uniquely suited for faith communities. Among the institutions of our society, only the church and the synagogue and the mosque can still posit some reason for human existence other than the constant accumulation of stuff.”
― Christianity Today, A Light Has Dawned: Meditations on Advent and Christmas

“Yet on the sundown side of the day, when the applause and cheers are but an echo and the prizes have tarnished, whom does history affirm?”
― Christianity Today, A Light Has Dawned: Meditations on Advent and Christmas