SCRIPTURE READINGS: Luke 2:8-10 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to...
SCRIPTURE READINGS: Luke 1: 30-31 “The angel said, ‘Don’t be afraid, Mary. God is honoring you. Look! You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.” Meditation for the Day In these verses, Mary, a humble and unsuspecting young woman, is...
SCRIPTURE READINGS: Colossians 2:6-7 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted, and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. Meditation for the Day The walk of faith begins at...
“They presented Him gifts” SCRIPTURE READINGS: MATTHEW 2:11 Thought for the Day Christmas, for many, is a time of giving and receiving gifts. The tradition of giving gifts at Christmas has several historical and symbolic reasons: Gifts to celebrate the birth of...
An angel appeared…with “good tidings of great joy.” LUKE 2:8-16 Meditation the Day For many people, Christmas is indeed a joyous occasion. For others, they will reflect on their past Christmases, which were marred by the struggles of hurt, addiction and hardship, and...
Scripture Reading “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the...
Scripture Reading “For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly...
Scripture Reading “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.” Colossians 2:8 NIV Thought For the Day Colossians 2:8 warns...
Scripture Reading “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.” Colossians 2:9-10 Thought For the Day These verses are a powerful reminder of the...
Scripture Reading “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still...
Scripture Reading “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” 1 Peter 2:9 NIV Thought For the Day In 1 Peter 2:9, Peter...
Scripture Reading “May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.” 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 NIV...
Scripture Reading “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” 1 John 3:1 NIV Thought For the Day In the opening verse of 1...
Scripture Reading “Come now, let us settle the matter, says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” ISAIHA 1:18 NIV Thought For the Day In this verse, God extends a gracious...
Scripture Reading “My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power” 1 Corinthians 2:5 NIV Thought For the Day In the journey of...