The ceiling is dark and beyond my vision as I lay awake in bed. Yet I stare at it, trying to make out its distance and depth while my mind turns over the week’s happenings and to-do lists. Is it 2am? 4am? 10pm? I don’t know. All I am aware of is that at some
I straighten the stocking on it’s fireplace hook and take a step back to evaluate my work. Something about the way the loop is sewn to the stocking itself makes it resistant to my every attempt to help it hand plumb, and I concede that it is good enough. Decorating for Christmas is a bit
READ ISAIAH ELEVEN verses one and two For our final day of study, we are going to look at one more prophecy that Jesus fulfilled in His birth. What analogy does Isaiah use for the Messiah? The Messiah will come from Jesse – from Jewish descent. Jesus came from the people of
READ LUKE ONE All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel (which means, God with us).” God has kept His promises. The Messiah has come. What are the various names given
READ LUKE ONE verses twenty-six through thirty-eight I will never tire of this story. The hope of all the nations is announced to Mary in the words of Luke one verses thirty-one through thirty-three. Mary is a virgin, and likely a teen virgin. Engaged like most Jewish women in her youth, Mary is sexually inexperienced
READ MATTHEW ONE verses eighteen through twenty-five Every generation has led us to these verses. These verses are bursting with hope, joy, and anticipation. It is my prayer that our weeks of study have grown in you a hopeful anticipation, and that you come to these verses with eagerness and satisfaction. The much-anticipated generation of
READ MATTHEW ONE Using the text below, identify all the names you are not familiar with in the family line of Christ. The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the
READ RUTH TWO & THREE The Lord honors Ruth’s commitment of faith. Though she steps foot among the people of God husbandless and penniless, the Lord provides for all of her needs. And he does so through His servant Boaz. What do we learn about Boaz’s character in Ruth 2:1-16? God provided for
READ RUTH ONE Ruth has survived much. Within the first handful of verses in chapter one we learn that she has lost her husband and is living in famine-ridden days in her home country of Moab. What’s more, the father-in-law who bore the cultural responsibility to provide for her has also passed away. She,