“I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 18:3 (NIV) When my oldest son first started playing baseball, he was still relatively young...
Take time to thank God for all that he provides for you. Psalms 100:1-5 “Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the...
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22–23 (NIV) Years ago there was a television commercial that featured Jay...
Jesus said to her, ‘Daughter, you took a risk of faith, and now you’re healed and whole. Live well, live blessed! Be healed of your plague.’ (Mark 5:34 MSG) When I was writing for my high school...
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...
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by Jon Walker · Published December 19, 2012 · Last modified January 18, 2013
And while they were there, the time came for her baby to be born; oand she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in a blanket and laid him in a manger, because...
[Jesus], being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. Philippians 2:6–7 (NIV) Most of...
While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born. Luke 2:6 (NIV) We manage time; we waste time. We spend time; we save time. We wish the time would come; we wish the...
So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary,...
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. . . . And everyone went to his own town to register. Luke 2:1, 3 (NIV) Jesus was...