Read Galatians 5:14. Love. God sent his son to be incarnated love. Incarnate means made into flesh, made plain, made visible, factual, real. It’s a theological word, and it’s never used in the Bible. The [...]
Read Galatians 4:8-10 and Ephesians 4:32-5:2. In this Christmas season, we celebrated the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. We opened presents, shared meals, and gathered with family. As we find ourselves here today a [...]
Read John 8:36. Throughout history, God’s people have been proclaiming freedom while in captivity. Israel sings praise songs to God while locked in slavery under Egyptian rule. At the mercy of the wilderness, Israel still [...]
How many of us, when our parents set a boundary, thought, “Someday, I’ll be old enough to do whatever I want.” We dreamt of all the things we would do when we were free. [...]
Read Luke 2:8-18. Ahhh…Christmas is finally here! I remember when I was a kid staring at our nativity set perched on top of our TV. It was a cardboard one – with very English-looking people [...]
Read Hebrews 2:14-15. Centuries of oppression. The Israelites experienced hundreds of years of being conquered and oppressed. It’s easy to say they brought it on themselves, especially after what they were told in Leviticus 26. [...]
RELAX + REFOCUS Place both feet on the floor, relax your entire body and breath in deeply. As you breath in a second time, pray “Lord Jesus.” And now as you exhale, pray “You are [...]
Read John 15:26. This week we have directed a lot of attention on the Spirit. I wonder if he is blushing? You see, If you study the Holy Spirit through texts like John 15:26, you [...]
Read Romans 5:1-5. When it comes to expectations this time of year, we are often like those kids in the famous Night Before Christmas poem, where “visions of sugar plums danced in their heads”. We [...]
Read Galatians 5:25. Our celebration of Christmas portrays God as infant. Let’s imagine God as a tiny living creature, not yet fully developed, a dependent, innocent, and immature child. We press into Jesus’ incarnation today, [...]
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