Daily Devo | December 11, 2020 (Advent)
Failing to use our gifts would be like Pevensie Children refusing to use the gifts (swords, a bow, and a healing draught) they received from Father Christmas in C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Our Heavenly Father’s gifts to us are given to be used up on living between two Advents!…
Daily Devo | December 10, 2020 (Advent)
Consider today a study day. Read each of the above passages in light of our passage this week in Luke 19:11-27 where Jesus has repeated himself with the maxim: “…for to the one who has, more will be given…”
Daily Devo | December 9, 2020 (Advent)
There is confusion upon the return of the master. Some will be afraid at his coming because they never really understood his lovingkindness…
Daily Devo | December 7, 2020 (Advent)
The crowd presses in around Jesus making it impossible for this hobbit-of-a man to catch more than a glimpse of Jesus. Can you picture him up there? Perhaps he’s perched on one of the sweeping limbs?…
Daily Devo | December 4, 2020 (Advent)
So come, O come, Immanuel, and bring even greater freedom to my heart and glory to yourself. I pray, in the wonders of your love and the trustworthiness of your name…
Daily Devo | December 3, 2020 (Advent)
Grant me the same intensity and care the prophets invested in searching out the promises of your coming. May old Scriptures come alive in profoundly new ways during this Advent season…
Daily Devo | December 2, 2020 (Advent)
Dear Lord Jesus, Advent has just begun, and I am praying it will be a season marked more by hush than rush. If I’m going to be busy with anything, may it be with quieting my heart, focusing my gaze, and setting my affection on things above…
Daily Devo | December 1, 2020 (Advent)
After he knocks at his friend’s door, he hears a sleepy voice from the inside telling him to go away: everyone is asleep. Anyone with children, especially more than one, understands his reluctance to wake them up…
