Be Faithful When Angels Don’t Appear

“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her. Luke 1:38 NIV Before the angel appeared to Mary, then to Joseph in a dream, they were ordinary people living ordinary lives just like you and I. While an encounter with …

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Do You Need God?

“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”). Matthew‬ ‭1:23‬ ‭NIV‬‬ If we think of Immanuel only during the Christmas season, we miss the whole point. God took on flesh and entered humanity not just to be with …

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A Genealogy of Grace

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 NIV What kind of family do you think God would choose when He put on …

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Take Time To Ponder

When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.  Luke 2:17-19 NIV From the …

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The Heart Of Christmas

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17 NIV …

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What Is Christmas All About?

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ‭‭1 John‬ ‭4:9‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but why was Jesus born, and why do we still celebrate his …

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Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 NIV The child who was born 2000 years ago was God in the …

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Isn’t This The Carpenter’s Son?

“Isn’t this the carpenter’s son?” Matthew 13:55a NIV I find it interesting that God, who made the universe and everything in it, chose a carpenter to be his earthly dad. Who better to understand God’s love for His creation than a carpenter? But why this carpenter, why Joseph? Of all …

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Be Faithful When You Can’t See The Angels

“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her. Luke 1:38 NIV Before the angel appeared to Mary, then to Joseph in a dream, they were ordinary people living ordinary lives just like you and I. While an encounter with …

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Have The Same Attitude As Jesus

You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. Philippians …

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God Became A Man

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by …

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Hands of Love

See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Isaiah 49:16a NIV The hands that made the universe and stretched out the heavens became the hands of a newborn baby. Isaiah 45:12 Those same hands touched blind eyes and they could see. Mark 8:25 When placed on those …

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Death Has Lost It’s Sting!

Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. …

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The Perfect Gift

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 NIV This weekend marks the start of the Christmas shopping season, when thousands of people will hit the stores in search of the perfect gift. Most will …

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