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2003

From Harold Masback, In Every Age For Every Generation: A Decision" (November 16, 2003) at pages 6-7:

New Canaan police have responded to over 41 reports of domestic violence this year, filing criminal charges in 17 separate incidents in the first 20 days of October alone. Town suicide rates that exceed even the rates of our national epidemic. Teen drinking rates among the highest in the state and 33% higher than the nation average.
10% of our high school students report drinking while at school.
67% say cheating on an exam is either not at all wrong or only a little bit wrong.

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1920

From Rev. Sid Burgess, Advent Detour", The Protestant Hour, December 3, 2000:

Looking through the front window, you can see a road sign blinking up ahead: “Warning: Advent Detour Ahead 2 Miles: All Christians Exit to the Right.”
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From Allen Hilton:

In the texts we read today and in the two millenia of Christian history that has followed, one axiom seems clear – God uses the people who show up.”

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2001

From Harold Masback, Holy Alchemy" (February 4, 2001) at page 8:

As C. S. Lewis put it, “God will not ravish, he will only woo.” God recruits but he does not draft. But when Moses decided to trudge back to Egypt, when Isaiah prophesied in God’s name, when Peter followed Jesus, when Paul emerged from Damascus an Apostle of Christ, the alchemy was complete. God had taken the common and the ordinary and transformed them into the special and extraordinary heroes of the faith.

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From Merriam Wbster's Collegiate Dictionary, Alchemy" Tenth Ed.:

Webster’s defines alchemy as “a power or process of transforming something common into something special.”

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From Edwin Muir, The Transfiguration":

Scottish poet Edwin Muir captured the disciples experience of the power of the transience of the transfiguration in his poem, “The Transfiguration”: So from the ground we felt that virtue branch Through all our veins till we were whole, Our wrists as fresh and pure as water from a well, our hands made new to handle holy things, The source of all our seeing rinsed And cleansed Till earth and light and water entering there Gave back to us the clear unfallen world.

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From Barbara Brown Taylor, Glory Doors:

Story after story of the New Testament pulls back the veil to reveal the true light, the true colors, the really real. But each of these stories poses a dilemma for sensible realists like you and me. Can we believe it? Do we believe it? If God’s glory is pulsing just beneath the surface of things, if the world is full of glory doors leaking God’s light all around us, how come we don’t recognize it? If Jesus promises us abundant lives of color and light, how come life so often seems black and white to us? If there is more, if the Kingdom of God is that near, where’s the entrance gate, what’s the password?

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2001

From Harold Masback, Seeing the Light" (February 25, 2001) at page 5:

Maybe we’re a little like Dorothy at the end of The Wizard of Oz. You’ll remember the movie opens and closes with Dorothy in Kansas, a world of black and white familiarity. But from the time her spinning house crashes in Oz until she wakes up back in her bed, the wizards of MGM pull back the veil on a fanciful new world of florious technicolor. So as Dorothy lies in her bed at the end of the movie, she’s trying to puzzle out: is the drab black and white of Kansas all there really is in life? Was technicolor Oz just a dream? Or, is there more? Is reality really in technicolor, but we just don’t have the eyes to see it?

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1948

From Paul Tillich, The Shaking of the Foundations, He Who is the Christ" (1948) at pages147-148:

As Paul Tillich wrote, “Jesus’s power would break our freedom; His glory would overwhelm us like a burning, blinding sun; our very humanity would be swallowed in His Divinity. One of Luther’s most profound insights was that God made Himelf small for us in Christ. In so doing, He left us our freedom and our humanity. He showed us His Heart, so that our hearts could be won.”

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1948

From Paul Tillich, The Shaking of the Foundations, He Who is the Christ" (1948) at pages 147-148:

Jesus could have opted to overwhelm human resistance with “his strength, with his wonderful government, with his infallible wisdom, with his irresistible perfection.” But he would have betrayed his fathers plan, and he would never be able to win our hearts that way.

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