Advent: Day 11 – Poured out love

God weaves a thread all through history that He is coming! Then He arrives as a baby to proclaim that He has come. He gives the gift of Himself on a Cross to a lowly, lonesome, sin-filled people and He pours out loves. Abundant life : to believe that God is where you doubt He…

Advent: Day 10 – Affections

Walk steadily into Advent ….into Christ Himself….into God. If you are anything like me the 10 commandments have always represented law! It is the epitome of a to do list. ADVENT – seeing Gods love come to life – this law in action = is CHRIST You shall have no other God before me = CHRIST…

Advent: Day 9 – The Good

This old-world word: ADVENT has turned new and is coming alive in me and by now we are walking deeper …deeper into Advent. Its more than just observing its joining the experience. We fight hard when we do not see and understand. The blindness of not knowing often causes us to fight relentlessly. Have you…

Advent: Day 8 – The Way

Stairways make my legs tired. In all of our going and doing and still we have to learn to climb. We have stairways of doing good and serving long. We have staircases of measuring up and expectations. In the Bible, Jacob saw a stairway from earth to heaven in a dream. He saw the angels…

Advent: Day 7 – Provider

God will see to it that we are taken care of. In fact, He sees a need and acts in deed. God observes and serves. No wonder He calls us to care for each other. to FEED the hungry to LOVE the unlovely to HELP the needy You don’t need to climb mountains named I…

Advent: Day 6 – Laugh

Do you laugh? Does laughing make you feel silly? Advent – the letting loose of the chains and exalting to Christ who has come There was a time when before I knew Christ that when I saw how serious a Christian was about going to church and reading the bible that I wondered if they…