by Kelly Potts | Dec 21, 2025 | Devotionals
The Fourth Sunday of Advent In today’s video devotional, Rev. Chuck Williamson invites you into the wonder of a Service of Lessons and Carols—where Scripture and song trace the story of Christ’s birth from ancient promise to joyful fulfillment. As we hear how...
by Kelly Potts | Dec 20, 2025 | Devotionals
Prayer Week 3: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear God who ruptures our darkness with your angelic melody of hope, we give you thanks for the light that hovers over our weary world, calling us, if only by a floating whisper, to stillness and peace. We praise you for the...
by Kelly Potts | Dec 19, 2025 | Devotionals
Participating in Peace Week 3: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear In the final stanza of “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”, writer Edmund Sears rouses from his restless midnight ruminations to look to the future. “The days are hastening on,” he says, when we will come to...
by Kelly Potts | Dec 18, 2025 | Devotionals
Hope in the Tension of Opposites As we read in Luke 2:8-14, the angel message came at night to shepherds who were guarding their sheep on the hillsides. They surely knew the skies well and perhaps found comfort in the familiar patterns of stars. Nightly doses of...
by Kelly Potts | Dec 17, 2025 | Devotionals
Angels Week 3: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear Have you ever noticed that “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” never mentions a Messiah, a manger, or a mother with child? Surprisingly, we still sing it every year despite the absence of Advent’s central character, Jesus...
by Kelly Potts | Dec 16, 2025 | Devotionals
Musical Rendition & Lyrics Week 3: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear LISTEN Click Here to Listen to “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” Music provided by members of the First Presbyterian Church Youth Group and Youth Choir LYRICS It came upon the...
by Kelly Potts | Dec 15, 2025 | Devotionals
A Weary World Week 3: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear Our devotional focus on carols turns to “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” this week. The writer, Rev. Edmund Sears had suffered a breakdown after several years at a large church and returned to a former congregation in...
by Kelly Potts | Dec 14, 2025 | Devotionals
The Third Sunday of Advent Isaiah 40:1-5; Luke 1:39-56 Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins....
by Kelly Potts | Dec 13, 2025 | Devotionals
Prayer Week 2: People Look East Holy and gracious God, you come to us in so many ways; as kindness that makes the difference between life and death; as hope when no hope is possible; as love that is already with us and still reaching out to us; make us ready to...
by Kelly Potts | Dec 12, 2025 | Devotionals
Love, the Lord Week 2: People Look East JOHN 1: 1-5, 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...
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