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The Music of Christmas | Imperial Dissonance (day 10)
The Music of Christmas is a collection of 25 daily devotions designed to help readers cut through the noise of a busy, distracting, and often loud holiday season. It is our prayer that God will use these familiar passages as a reminder of His i...
The Music of Christmas | Benedictus (day 9)
The Music of Christmas is a collection of 25 daily devotions designed to help readers cut through the noise of a busy, distracting, and often loud holiday season. It is our prayer that God will use these familiar passages as a reminder of His i...
The Music of Christmas | Magnificat (day 8)
The Music of Christmas is a collection of 25 daily devotions designed to help readers cut through the noise of a busy, distracting, and often loud holiday season. It is our prayer that God will use these familiar passages as a reminder of His i...
The Music of Christmas | Duet (day 7)
The Music of Christmas is a collection of 25 daily devotions designed to help readers cut through the noise of a busy, distracting, and often loud holiday season. It is our prayer that God will use these familiar passages as a reminder of His i...
The Fullness of Time | Be Silent
Luke does not begin the Christmas story with the birth of Jesus. He doesn’t even begin with an introduction to Mary and Joseph. Instead, Luke begins by telling the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth, an older couple who appeared to be out of time...
The Music of Christmas | Metronome (day 6)
The Music of Christmas is a collection of 25 daily devotions designed to help readers cut through the noise of a busy, distracting, and often loud holiday season. It is our prayer that God will use these familiar passages as a reminder of His i...
The Music of Christmas | The Quiet Strain (day 5)
The Music of Christmas is a collection of 25 daily devotions designed to help readers cut through the noise of a busy, distracting, and often loud holiday season. It is our prayer that God will use these familiar passages as a reminder of His i...
The Music of Christmas | Anthem of Hope (day 4)
The Music of Christmas is a collection of 25 daily devotions designed to help readers cut through the noise of a busy, distracting, and often loud holiday season. It is our prayer that God will use these familiar passages as a reminder of His i...
The Music of Christmas | Song of Silence (day 3)
The Music of Christmas is a collection of 25 daily devotions designed to help readers cut through the noise of a busy, distracting, and often loud holiday season. It is our prayer that God will use these familiar passages as a reminder of His i...
The Music of Christmas | Echoing Down the Generations (day 2)
The Music of Christmas is a collection of 25 daily devotions designed to help readers cut through the noise of a busy, distracting, and often loud holiday season. It is our prayer that God will use these familiar passages as a reminder of His i...
The Music of Christmas | Ancient Refrain (day 1)
The Music of Christmas is a collection of 25 daily devotions designed to help readers cut through the noise of a busy, distracting, and often loud holiday season. It is our prayer that God will use these familiar passages as a reminder of His i...
The Music of Christmas | Prelude
The Music of Christmas is a collection of 25 daily devotions designed to help readers cut through the noise of a busy, distracting, and often loud holiday season. It is our prayer that God will use these familiar passages as a reminder of His i...
Psalms of Thanksgiving | Song of Faith
The table has become the centerpiece of our Thanksgiving celebration, and for good reason. Not only does the table (and the food on it) represent God’s provision, but scientists have discovered that the human mind attaches significant memories ...
Psalms of Thanksgiving | Song of Contentment
Living in a social media society causes us to live our lives in constant comparison to others. Always watching what other people have and are doing will cause us not to value what we have. This lack of appreciation and thankfulness can often le...
Psalms of Thanksgiving | Song of Resilience
The Bible says that Christians are to be thankful in all circumstances. That sounds good until we consider some of the most difficult circumstances of life. How can we practice gratitude in the midst of sickness, injustice, pandemics, and socia...
Jesus 2020 | The Pursuit of Happiness
The Declaration of Independence lists the “pursuit of happiness” as one of our “unalienable rights.” Unfortunately, this has been misunderstood by some as a guarantee of happiness rather than the right to pursue ...
Jesus 2020 | Give Me Liberty
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…” The Declaration of Independence is based on the understanding that our rights and freedoms come f...
Jesus 2020 | Life, Wolves, and Contract Labor
Many campaigns in America have degenerated into contests to see which candidate can make more people afraid of his or her opponent. They do all they can to portray “the other guy” as evil, unfit, and bent on destroying life as we know it. Jesus...
Jesus 2020 | Making the Kingdom Great Again
Jesus assembled a politically diverse group of followers to serve as His first disciples. Not only did He call Matthew -- a Roman tax collector and sympathizer -- but He also called Simon the Zealot -- a hard core Jewish nationalist and revolut...
Tightrope | Uniquely United
“Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world!” Did you ever sing that song in church? If you did, and if the church you grew up in was like most churches in America, you probably...
Tightrope | Addition by Multiplication
When Jesus set about to accomplish His Father’s mission, He could have done it in any number of ways, but He chose to do His work through ordinary people. Men and women who were flawed and weak and often ignorant. He sent His disciples out two ...
Tightrope | Praying with Our Eyes Wide Open
Does God want us to retreat from the world and spend all of our time seeking Him in prayer and solitude, or has He called us to go into the world as ambassadors of His coming kingdom? The answer is, “Yes!” For many believers, and most churches,...
Tightrope | The Secret to Loving Everyone Always
Before leaving His disciples, Jesus gave them one commandment to obey and a great mission to accomplish. His Great Commandment was to love God and love others. His Great Commission was to go into all the world to make disciples. These verses ar...
