Advent Devotional for December 23

LUKE 2:1-20 In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from the town...

Advent Devotional for December 22

LUKE 2:1-20 In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from the town...

Advent Devotional for December 20

        God whose name is Love. You call us to love others, but love us first. So beautifully, so resoundingly, without reciprocation or judgment in your words and deeds, your subversive acts that raised up the lowly. In your birth and death and...

Advent Devotional for December 19

COLOSSIANS 3:14 Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. REFLECTION “Blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above.” This hymn was written by John...

Advent Devotional for December 18

1 CORINTHIANS 13:7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. REFLECTION Frederick Buechner once said about Corinthians 13 what could be said about the word “love” itself: that it is like “a coin worn smooth with long handling....