by Edward | Dec 24, 2020 | Christmas, Advent, Devotional
Tony Campolo likes to tell the story about traveling from Pennsylvania to Honolulu, Hawaii, for a speaking engagement. One of the problems with traveling across the continental US, and then across the Pacific to Hawaii, is getting used to the time difference, you get...
by Edward | Dec 23, 2020 | Advent, Christmas, Devotional
“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” That is how the apostle Paul felt about the miracle of God’s incarnation in Jesus Christ. He wrote this to the Corinthians in his second letter, chapter 9:15. In the NLV, this verse is...
by Edward | Dec 22, 2020 | Christmas, Advent, Devotional
Can you think of your favorite Christmas gift of all time? You spent days and months, maybe years, thinking about it and dreaming of having it, and then early one Christmas morning, you open a package you hadn’t noticed, and there it is. Surprise, joy,...
by Edward | Dec 7, 2020 | Advent, Christmas, Devotional
One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple. Psalm 27:4 This verse inspires thoughts of eternal life in heaven with the...
by Edward | Dec 4, 2020 | Advent, Christmas, Devotional
However, the report went around concerning Him all the more; and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by Him of their infirmities. So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed. (Luke 5:15-16 NKJV). Multitudes of people were coming to...
by Edward | Dec 3, 2020 | Devotional, Advent, Christmas
When the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him… (Luke 4:13 NKJV). After Jesus’ baptism, He went into the wilderness for forty days, where the devil tempted him. He didn’t eat while in the wilderness, and in the end, he was hungry. So the...
