What joy thieves are in your life? Sin, grief, our own hearts or misplaced joy can rob us of joy, but joy can be restored through God and His word. Listen in to find a joy we can have not just at Christmas time, but all year through.
Episode #66 – Find out how we can be encouraged by Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s advent message during WW II.
Are you running on empty already this Christmas season? Tune in to this week’s episode as Erin Olson discusses how you can simplify this season by focusing on Advent.
If we know God loves us, how ought we to live? Loved. The love of God is more than just a feeling. This life could never give us the love we crave. Come and explore God’s love for you this advent season.
What joy thieves are in your life? Sin, grief, our own hearts or misplaced joy can rob us of joy, but joy can be restored through God and His word. Listen in to find a joy we can have not just at Christmas time, but all year through.
Encouragement to keep our eyes on the wonder found all around us.
Though we can’t know the answers, we can turn afresh to the One Who has us in the palm of His Hand.
Now we are friends of God, His children…dare we even say it?
Episode #66 – Find out how we can be encouraged by Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s advent message during WW II.
In Jesus Christ, The Son of God, the Messiah, God permanently identified Himself with us, His human creatures.
Who would have ever imagined it? God in the flesh!
Romans 8 tells us that creation “waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed” so that creation can be released from the bondage of decay.
There isn’t any other season that comes with more pressure to be happy than Christmas.
Elizabeth explained what was happening—a move of the Spirit of God! The child within her lept at the sound of Mary’s voice and she was filled with the Spirit of God!
He had not slept since Mary had given him the news of her pregnancy. How can such a thing be?
I allowed my fingers to trace her name. This woman was an important person in the history of our faith, and up until this morning, I had never heard of her.
Mary thought of Joseph. She protested her innocence. “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”
Her husband has regained his ability to speak and now he won’t stop. He is telling her, again, about that day at the Temple.
Six months into Elizabeth’s pregnancy, her young cousin, Mary, came for a visit. Neighbors caught a glimpse of the older woman as Mary approached the house.
The angel identified himself as Gabriel who stands in the presence of God. That should be enough credentials!
If our possessions crowd every inch of space in the house, garage, and rented storage space, we can still see something we do not possess and long for it.
In Advent, we remember. We retell the very same story every year because there isn’t a better story to tell. The gospel is the greatest story ever told.