I am always unsure about the making of New Year’s resolutions. Just setting myself up for failure as the first post-Christmas chocolate shows up in the partially devoured box from the prior year…like, you know, from yesterday. And the frugal side of me thinks, “You don’t want to throw out perfectly good chocolate. What a […]
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year, 2022. I pray it will be a year in which you find increasing light of understanding of the gift God has given us. With every year that goes by, there is less time remaining before the Light of the World returns, this time not to bring peace […]
It can be hard to explain to kids at Christmas the relationship between Santa and Jesus and proper perspective regarding gifts. Hopefully this coloring page will help which is why I made this to help my grandsons. As we turn the New Year, I pray each and every person who sees this photo will be […]
Christ is born! No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known. (John 1:18) The Interludes we’ve seen in our devotional series have included Sanctuary of God’s Presence. (As sinners, we couldn’t be with God until […]
Shepherds weren’t just nobodies. They weren’t just lowly. They were dregs. And yet, the Interlude of waiting for Messiah put them in front row seats to the biggest event of all human history after Creation. Luke 2:8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 […]
God has been steadily removing the things that were placeholders and pattern-makers until the Advents of Christ, the Messiah. I say Advents (plural) because His birth (first Advent), life, death, resurrection, and ascension ended all placeholding functions. I say Advents because when Christ returns and the Last Day to beat all last days occurs, there […]
Scripture says that “Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” (John 1:16-17) Think about it: Jesus could have come right after Adam and Eve fell into sin. Jesus could have come after Babel. […]
Lots of people, especially politicians and bureaucrats, like to refer to themselves as “civil servants.” Too often that’s how those seeking power talk but not how they act once they are installed in a position of power. Pastors, too, view themselves as servant leaders and many try to do it right. But power has a […]
Making the nations prove the righteousness of God (which will in turn reveal and display the wonders of His love to those believed in His Name) … well, it is a task that has been long in coming and proving as hard as the hearts which will be forced to kneel before Him. Some will […]
He rules the world with truth and grace and makes the nations prove the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love I’ve always thought this verse of “Joy to the World” was particularly powerful. The Lord “makes the nations prove”…kind of a hymn equivalent of “Turn to me and be saved, all you […]
