by Kelly Potts | Dec 15, 2024 | Devotionals
MATTHEW 1:18-25 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to...
by Kelly Potts | Dec 14, 2024 | Devotionals
JOURNAL PROMPT What beauty, goodness, or joy do you long for today?
by Kelly Potts | Dec 13, 2024 | Devotionals
PRAYER Oh God, we are waiting, we are longing for You, oh Prince of Peace. Come and reign in our hearts. Settle us in quiet expectancy that as sure as day follows night, you will come and be for us the wonder the world cannot give, the light that shows us how to see,...
by Kelly Potts | Dec 11, 2024 | Devotionals
2 CORINTHIANS 13:11 Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. REFLECTION I find clues to pathways to peace in the lives of family members....
by Kelly Potts | Dec 10, 2024 | Devotionals
PSALM 23:1-3 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. REFLECTION My 8-year-old son, James, asked me recently, “Has...
by Kelly Potts | Dec 9, 2024 | Devotionals
JOHN 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid. REFLECTION Lately, a prayer for peace feels audacious. Violence persists everywhere. Wars overseas,...
by Kelly Potts | Dec 8, 2024 | Devotionals
JOHN 1:1-14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life...
by Cierra Christian | Dec 8, 2024 | Devotionals
JOHN 1:1-14: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life...
by Kelly Potts | Dec 7, 2024 | Devotionals
JOURNAL PROMPT As we wait and look long for the promises of God to come, where do you notice the “most profound, tenderest things in the world” (Bonhoeffer) secretly sprouting, growing, and becoming?
by Kelly Potts | Dec 6, 2024 | Devotionals
PRAYER God of all hope, You break into our world as an infant wrapped in cloth, lying in a feeding trough (Luke 2:7). A birth that sends a blaze of glory lighting up the fields (Luke 2:9) and filling the night sky (Matthew 2:9). You are the light that shines in the...
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