Advent Devotional for December 26

PRAYER God, we don’t yet have hold of it, but we can almost feel it— or at least the memory of it— the joy that our hearts so long for, the fulfilling of all our hopes, the completion of our loves, the perfection of beauty brought near Blessed are we who lift our eyes...

Advent Devotional for December 25

JOHN 15:9-11 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in...

Advent Devotional for December 24

PSALM 5:11 But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, so that those who love your name may exult in you. REFLECTION I read once that in times of great grief or suffering, the sadness is not the hardest...

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....

Advent Devotional for December 17

JOHN 13:34-35 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. REFLECTION Daily, we hear Christians and...