ARCHIVE December, 2013

Happy New Year 2014

There’s something about a New Year.  It’s not really a clean slate, but it feels like one.  It’s not really new, but it feels that way.  It’s not really a fresh start, but why not make it one? New Years are mile markers in life.  A fresh calendar on the wall.  A starting line for changes.  […]

December 31, 2013 in Articles and Devotionals, Devotionals by

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Remember…and Don’t Forget

Many of us who have had loved ones with Alzheimer’s can testify to the beauty of a memory and the devastation to the person and the whole family when someone has lost the ability to remember. Without a memory there is no past for that person.  Without a memory, there is no planning for the […]

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Chapel Worship Guide 12.29.2013

Chapel Worship Guide for Sunday 9 AM, December 29, 2013 The Nemmers Family Chapel at Advocate Condell Prelude  Welcome—Barbara Shafer, Christ Church Highland Park Worship in Song:  O Worship the King, All Glorious Above (Hymn 21)  Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Hymn 25)  Great is Thy Faithfulness (Hymn 37) Scripture Reading (Old Testament)  Genesis 14: […]

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Marking Time

As 2013 draws to a close, it’s a good time to reflect.  There will have been 365 days of sunrises and sunsets that God has graciously given us to mark the time.  What will have been this year’s highlights?  What do-overs will you wish you had?  The very best use of a day will be […]

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Merry Christmas 2013!

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Advent 24 (2013): LOVE Showed Up as Savior

John 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This […]

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Advent 23 (2013): For God So Loved…

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Advent 22 (2013): Time for a Bigger Box

John 3:1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not […]

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Chapel Worship Guide 12.22.2013

Chapel Worship Guide for Sunday 9 AM, December 22, 2013 The Nemmers Family Chapel at Advocate Condell   Prelude– In the Bleak Mid-winter Today’s service is provided by the First Presbyterian Church of Libertyville. Welcome—Barbara Shafer, Christ Church Highland Park  Worship in Song:   Angels We Have Heard on High Hark the Herald Angels Sing Scripture (Old […]

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Advent 21 (2013): Responding to Miracles

John 2:23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name. 24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. 25 He did not need man’s testimony about man, for he knew what was in […]

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