Service Order for 9:00 AM Sunday, December 30, 2012 Nemmers Family Chapel at Advocate Condell Prelude Welcome — Barbara Shafer, Christ Church Highland Park Worship in Song Prayer Scripture Reading: NIV Isaiah 60:1 “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. 2 See, darkness covers the earth […]
Luke 2:1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to his own town to register. 4 So Joseph also went up from the town […]
“Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.” (Luke 1:56) I wonder about “about”. Three plus six equals nine. Elizabeth was six months along when Mary heard the angel’s words and hurried to see her relative. Elizabeth would be at nine months at this point. The question would be, “Did Mary stay until Elizabeth […]
Service Order for 9:00 AM Sunday, December 23, 2012 Nemmers Family Chapel at Advocate Condell Prelude Welcome — Barbara Shafer, Christ Church Highland Park Worship in Song Prayer Scripture Reading: Luke 2:1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the […]
And Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.’” Luke 1:46-47 New King James Version The Magnificat, as Mary’s song is often called, is rich with theology. The name Magnificat comes from the Latin for [My soul] “magnifies” translated this way in the New King James (above), […]
The angel has just left Mary and she would not hear from him again. No booster shots of encouragement. No bolstering of her faith from an angelic messenger. Instead, God uses another woman, her relative Elizabeth, to do the work of encouraging and affirming. “At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town […]
Luke 1:36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. 37 For nothing is impossible with God.” 38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May it be to me as you have said.” Then the […]
Have you ever wondered if God was calling you to do something or if you just imagined it? It happens to me a lot. * * * In fact, the stranger the thing is that God wants me to do, the more I have a tendency to put it off and/or debate myself over it. […]
How do we respond to the senseless mass murder of 20 innocent children in Newtown, Connecticut? Or the victims in Aurora, Colorado? Or in Portland, Oregon? Please know your grief is remembered here, too. How do we minister to those who grieve—whether those family members who must pass through the dark valley of personal grief or […]
