Lift Up Your Head!
This Christmas season maybe you need to appreciate that God bestows his favor on you personally? Maybe you’ve been feeling discouraged or insignificant and need to…
Tag: Advent
Good News of Great Joy!
It’s Christmastime! Are you celebrating Christ in your heart? Are you appreciating the incarnate Son of God, the King of kings, in your thoughts? It’s…
Listen to God with Joseph
Don’t forget Joseph’s part in the Nativity story. God may be speaking to you through his role… None of Joseph’s words are recorded in the…
The Advent of Your God-Dream
Advent means “come.” At Christmastime we celebrate the miracle birth of “Immanuel,” God come to be with us. Jesus Christ was born to the virgin…
Be Quiet to Welcome Christmas
Christmastime can be so noisy and busy! Perhaps God is inviting you to make time for quiet prayer? Zechariah (John the Baptist’s father) waited in…
Make Room for Jesus this Christmas
“There was no room for Jesus in the Inn” (Luke 2:7). These are chilling words. And you and I must admit that often they are…
A Silent Night to Prepare for Christmas
God has a funny way of doing things. Almost always it’s so different than how we would do them. Like his announcement that after many…
Christ Can’t be Stolen from Christmas!
A few days ago I was walking up our brick sidewalk under the twinkling of white Christmas lights strung up on our trees and house…
Be Like Santa Claus
The other day I did something I’ve never done before: I put on a Santa Claus outfit for a picture. When I dressed up as…