Tag: Jesus

  • Awe & Wonder

    Awe & Wonder

    We all know the Christmas Story, but these last couple of years, as I have read it, it got me thinking a little differently.  We know the story; we read it over, and over again each Christmas, but how often does the awe and wonder of this miraculous event get lost because of its familiarity? …

  • Living by Reflection

    Living by Reflection

    This Christmas season we pause and reflect on the birth of Jesus, the Savior of the world, born a baby, yet a King. He came from humble means, born on a silent night in the city of Bethlehem, traveling with His mother and father on a donkey to a cold, dark cave of sorts, wrapped…

  • The Spirit of God Within Us

    The Spirit of God Within Us

    As we are approaching Christmas Day, our thoughts and our intentions reflect upon the manger and the birth of Christ, and how beautiful it was. During this season we watch the Christmas movies, we look at manger scenes and Christmas lights around our community, and we ponder the miraculous virgin birth of our Lord and…

  • Living by Surrender

    Living by Surrender

    Mary, the mother of Jesus. A young girl, highly favored. Chosen by God. In Mark 1, we read every advent season of this young girl in a desert place devoted to God with no apparent promise other than a future marriage to a young man named Joseph. An angel appeared to Mary one night, telling…

  • Rise & Choose

    Rise & Choose

    RISE AND CHOOSE I recently was blessed to attend a one-day women’s conference, SOUL CARE-RISE, which ministered to my heart in ways I didn’t realize I needed.  Dry-Bones and Ezekial 37: 1-14, were where we started and as the day progressed I came to realize that the challenges of the past year in several areas…