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“A little boy stood before the picture of his father, who had been away from home for a long time. He missed his dad sorely, and as he gazed at his picture, he said wistfully, ‘I wish Father would step out of the picture.’ That’s precisely what happened at Bethlehem . . . God stepped out of the picture in the person of Jesus, our Lord and Saviour. That’s good news; that’s the gospel of Advent.”
—David Ewert, “Christmas: Good News of Great Joy” in Proclaim Salvation: Preaching the Church Year, Herald Press, 1992 | 
