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Francis Spufford

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Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and extraordinary is being asked of us as well – that we hold to an extraordinary promise about how, from moment to moment, something enters the world and enters us, after which everything is different.

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Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

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For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true – but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need.

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April 27, 2024

For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true – but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need.

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April 27, 2024

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

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