Category: Advent 2016

  • Advent: All The Saints Adore Him

    Sunday, December 4 (Suggested Reading: Revelation 4:1-11 One afternoon as I was driving home from work, the red lights on a school bus several vehicles ahead of me began flashing, and the driver slowed to a stop. I sat and watched as about seven or eight elementary-aged Hispanic children of various shapes and sizes departed…

  • Advent: He Still Loves Me

    Saturday, December 3 (Suggested Reading: Psalm 40) The love that God has for us is incomprehensible. It is unlike any human, earthly love that we have ever known. The best part is that the love He has for us is bound up in truth. It is unconditional, eternal, and pure love- love that isn’t based…

  • Advent: Already Clean

    Friday, December 2 (Suggested Scripture Reading: John 15:1-11) Two of the biggest news stories to come out this summer were issued by the FDA. First, in August, the United States Health Department issued the announcement that all of that flossing we’ve been griping about doing for so long really isn’t doing as much good as…

  • Advent: He Is The Light

    Thursday, December 1.(Suggested Scripture: Luke 2:25-32; Isaiah 9:2; John 8:12; Rev. 21:23) A missionary spoke of following a car blindly through the winding roads of a mountainous region.  It was the darkest of night, and the only point of reference she had was the small bit of light from the car in front of her.  The…

  • Advent: Just Between You and Me

    Tuesday, November 29 (Suggested Scripture Reading: Psalm 139) In 1982, psychologist Peter Gollwitzer published a book called Symbolic Self-Completion. His work built on social experiments dating back as early as 1933, in which it was discovered that people who speak of their goals and plans to others are less likely to actually achieve them than…

  • Advent: Stir Me

    Monday, November 28 (Suggested Scripture Reading: Romans 12) Dr. Helen Roseveare, a medical missionary to West Africa for many years, was the main speaker at a missions conference when I was in college. When I think of the purpose of Advent- to prepare us for the coming of Jesus- I go back to one of…

  • Advent

    It’s the same Christmas story that has been told for over 2,000 years. In the Old Testament, we heard it from the perspective of the prophets; in the Gospels, from that of the disciples. Writers have imagined it from the perspectives of Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, the wise men, and even the animals, and the…

  • Mystery

    I’ve been listening to a lot of Christmas music the past few months. Yep, I know it’s early- and I know that some people would say it’s a borderline travesty to listen to Christmas music before Thanksgiving. Don’t care! What have you been listening to…? Political debates?! I ran across this song, and it has…

  • Trihagion: Say that 3 times fast!

    I will admit, the first time I encountered the term trihagion in Bible college I thought it was a reference to one of Paul’s sports analogies. He’s always using those!  But as I continued to read I discovered that this term refers to something much more powerful than running, jumping or hitting something.