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Every Day Can Be A Christmas
When Christ was born, so was our hope. This is why I love Christmas. The event invites us to believe the wildest of promises. He did away with every barrier, fence, sin, bent, debt, and grave. Anything that might keep us from him was demolished. He only awaits our word to walk through the door. Invite him in. Escort him to the seat of honor, and pull out his chair. Clear the table; clear the calendar. Call the kids and neighbors. Christmas is here. Christ is here.
One request from you, and God w...
Изменен: 26-12-2023Devotionals , Advent , birth of Jesus , Daily Devotionals , Minute Messages Путь: Христиане Адвентисты Седьмого дня в России и СНГ
The With Us God
The babe of Bethlehem. Immanuel. Remember the promise of the angel? “‘Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,’ which is translated, ‘God with us’” (Matthew 1:23 NKJV).
Immanuel. The name appears in the same Hebrew form as it did two thousand years ago. “Immanu” means “with us.” “El” refers to Elohim, or God. Not an “above us God” or a “somewhere in the neighborhood God.” He came as the “with us God.” God with us. Not with the ric...
Изменен: 25-12-2023Devotionals , Advent , birth of Christ , birth of Jesus , Daily Devotionals , Minute Messages Путь: Христиане Адвентисты Седьмого дня в России и СНГ
On Purpose with a Purpose
The Christmas tree hunt is on. The preferences are different, but the desire is the same: we want the perfect Christmas tree! You search for the right one. You walk the rows. You examine them from all angles. This one is perfect!
God does the same. He has picked you. He knows just the place where you’ll be placed. He has a barren living room in desperate need of warmth and joy. A corner of the world needs some color. He selected you with that place in mind. God made you on purpose with a purpose...
Изменен: 22-12-2023Devotionals , Advent , birth of Jesus , Daily Devotionals , Minute Messages Путь: Христиане Адвентисты Седьмого дня в России и СНГ
Hope Is Born
Hollywood would recast the Christmas story. Joseph’s collar is way too blue. Mary is green from inexperience. The couple’s star power doesn’t match the bill. Too obscure, too simple. The story warrants some headliners. And what about the shepherds? Do they sing? A good public relations firm would move the birth to a big city. The Son of God deserves a royal entry. Less peasant, more pizzaz.
But we didn’t design the hour. God did. And God was content to enter the world in the presence of sleepy s...
Изменен: 21-12-2023Devotionals , Advent , birth of Jesus , Daily Devotionals , Minute Messages Путь: Христиане Адвентисты Седьмого дня в России и СНГ
Why I Love Christmas
Let the sleigh bells ring! I love Christmas. Let the carolers sing. The more Santas the merrier. I don’t complain about the crowded shops. I don’t grumble at the jam-packed grocery store. Well, it’s Christmas.
I love it because someone will ask the Christmas questions. “What’s the big deal about the baby in the manger? Who was he? What does his birth have to do with me?” The questioner may be a soldier stationed far from home. She may be a young mom who, for the first time, holds a child on Chri...
Изменен: 15-12-2023Devotionals , Advent , birth of Jesus , Daily Devotionals , Minute Messages Путь: Христиане Адвентисты Седьмого дня в России и СНГ
God Sent a Savior
Christmas cards. Punctuated promises. Can I share words from my favorite Christmas cards?
“He became like us, so we could become like Him.” “Angels still sing and the star still beckons.” And from Isaiah 9, verse 6: “God has given a Son to us. His name will be Wonderful Counselor, Powerful God, and Prince of Peace.”
And my favorite: “If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our ...
Изменен: 14-12-2023Devotionals , Advent , birth of Jesus , Christmas , Daily Devotionals , Minute Messages Путь: Христиане Адвентисты Седьмого дня в России и СНГ
Don’t Miss It
One’s imagination is kindled thinking about the conversation of the innkeeper and his family. Did anyone mention the arrival of the young couple the night before? Did anyone ask about the pregnancy of the girl on the donkey? The innkeeper and his family were so busy. The day was upon them. The day’s bread had to be made, the morning’s chores had to be done. There was too much to do to imagine that the impossible had occurred. God had entered the world as a baby.
Meanwhile the city hummed. Mercha...
Изменен: 08-12-2023Devotionals , Advent , birth of Jesus , Christmas , Daily Devotionals , Minute Messages Путь: Христиане Адвентисты Седьмого дня в России и СНГ
Linger Near the Manger
Christianity was born in one big heavenly interruption. Just ask the Bethlehem shepherds. They had no expectations of excitement. These are sheep they’re watching. We count sheep to go to sleep! Shepherds, however, treasured the predictable. This was the night shift. Any excitement was bad excitement—wolves, lions, poachers. Just because they wanted a calm night, didn’t mean they would get it.
Luke says, “Then an angel of the Lord stood before them. The glory of the Lord shining around them, and...
Изменен: 07-12-2023Devotionals , Advent , birth of Jesus , Christmas , Daily Devotionals , Minute Messages Путь: Христиане Адвентисты Седьмого дня в России и СНГ
Searching the Night
On the night when Jesus was born, I wonder if Joseph prayed, “Father, this all seems so…bizarre. The angel you sent? Any chance you could send another?”
You’ve stood where Joseph stood. Each of us knows what it’s like to search the night for a light. Not outside a stable, but perhaps outside an emergency room or the manicured grass of a cemetery. We’ve asked our questions. We’ve wondered why God does what he does. If you’re asking what Joseph asked, let me urge you to do what J...
Изменен: 06-12-2023Devotionals , Advent , birth of Jesus , Christmas , Daily Devotionals , Minute Messages , obedience Путь: Христиане Адвентисты Седьмого дня в России и СНГ
Anything But a King
In Bethlehem, the human being who best understood who God was and what he was doing was a teenage girl in a smelly stable. As Mary looked into the face of the baby—her son, her Lord, his majesty—she couldn’t take her eyes off him. Somehow Mary knew she was holding God. So this is he. And she remembered the words of the angel when he said, “His kingdom will never end.”
He looked like anything but a king. His cry, though strong and healthy, was still the helpless and piercing cry of a baby. Majest...
Изменен: 01-12-2023Devotionals , birth of Jesus , Christmas , Daily Devotionals , Minute Messages Путь: Христиане Адвентисты Седьмого дня в России и СНГ
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