Advent Devotions – December 25th

Advent Devotions - December 25th Merry Christmas! Luke 2:20 "The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told." The countdown is over. The day is here… just as you had been told; on...

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Advent Devotions – December 24th

Advent Devotion - December 24th Luke 2:20 "The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told." God doesn’t lie. His word is true. The Bible records what has been heard and seen, what...

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Advent Devotions – December 23rd

Advent Devotion - December 23rd Luke 2:20 "The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told." The shepherds were praising God for all the things they had heard and seen. All… this is...

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Advent Devotions – December 22nd

Advent Devotions - December 22nd Luke 2:20 "The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told." Can you imagine having an experience like that, and then going back to your everyday...

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Advent Devotions – December 21st

Advent Devotions - December 21st Luke 2:19 "But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart." Again, let us look at the comment from Keathley’s study on Luke 2:1-20 entitled, “Acclamations of the Birth of Christ”: "The word “pondered” (vs. 19b)...

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Advent Devotions – December 20th

Advent Devotions - December 20th Luke 2:19 "But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart." To treasure – the Greek definition is from two words meaning to keep closely together, i.e. (by implication) to conserve (from ruin); mentally, to...

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Advent Devotions – December 19th

Advent Devotions - December 19th Luke 2:18 "and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them." To hear: to attend to, consider what is or has been said. The Greek translates amazed as the word wondered, and the dictionary defines wonder as to be...

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Advent Devotions – December 18th

Advent Calendar - December 18th Luke 2:17 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, A familiar Bible study topic (and area with which most of us struggle from time to time) is gossip. You hear something “juicy”...

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Advent Devotions – December 17th

Advent Devotion - December 17th Luke 2:16 "So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger." We hurry off to those crazy 4am store openings to get huge bargains on gifts… we hurry off to work (or home office these days),...

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Advent Devotions – December 16th

Advent Devotion - December 16th Luke 2:14 "When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about." Have you ever had the experience of...

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