Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. Proverbs 19:21 God often interrupts our plans with His plans. In these moments, our world seems to have turned upside down. However, a heart filled with joy allows us to see beyond the present trouble to an unexpected outcome…
Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand…we know how dearly God loves us, because he has…
10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find…
Most people have “snapshots” of Jesus. There’s Jesus as a baby, there’s Jesus on the cross, there’s Jesus that taught and healed… but what does the Bible say about this child that we celebrate at Christmas?
The world in which we live is often characterized by anything except for Peace. Today, we will look at Jesus as the Prince of Peace and discover what that title means for us as His followers.
‘For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.’ Isaiah 9:6 Often we look at the word Father and we see through the filter of our own earthly fathers.…
There is an unwritten thought about Christmas gifts, and gifts in general. The gift someone gives tells us what they think about us. Goes even deeper. Not just what they think of us but also how much they know us. How they think and feel about us. Christmas is ultimately not about us giving gifts…
2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone… 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince…
6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6 For us to find true Joy, we must submit to the Glory of God which is found in Jesus.
People massage their lineage by scrubbing some from the family tree (don’t mention great-grandfather that was the village idiot or other unsavory characters. Matthew, however, when listing the family tree of Jesus, doesn’t scrub clean or try to hide anything from the line. So, he begins with Abraham and recounts generation to generation of real…