SCRIPTURE: " Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or the left; remove your foot from evil." Proverbs 4:26,27 We are surely adrift...Historically, there is something that the Boy Scouts of America gets very right, summarized as their 'Scout Motto' and their 'Scout Slogan'. "Be prepared." "Do a good turn daily."  These notions, for several gene...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28 After a year of ups and downs, tough times, natural disasters, failures, pain and disrupted plans: It is natural for man to welcome the opportunity to move forward with fresh ideas; to launch a brighter outlook for the future, to search for ways to av...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” Romans 1:17“Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever.  Amen.” Jude 24 Over th...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: "Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!" 2 Corinthians 9:15"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life." Romans: 6:23 Grandma gave Little Suzie mittens and a hat for Christmas because she walks to school. Suzie wanted a doll. It wasn’t expensive but her eyes blinked when she moved and she had hair you could comb. Suzie told her mom that she didn’t want Gra...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, 11 persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and impostors will gr...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.” Galatians 4:4-5 The adrenalin rush of Christmas plummets days after December 25. After all most gifts have been delivered or opened, and pretty much everyone is satisfied. Now what? Emptiness repl...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: "With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.12 Blessed are You, O Lord! Teach me Your statutes." Psalm 119"10-12 Sunday, December 21, 2025Hebrews 10:22-25  Monday, December 22, 2025Matthew 2:7-11 Tuesday, December 23, 2025Matthew 1:23 Wednesday, December 24, 20251 Corinth...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to t...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” 1 Corinthians 13:11 I absolutely love Christmas. I love everything about it, the decorations, the songs, the movies, the holly, the jolly, Santa and Jesus! I love it all. As a child, my parents did all the things. I was the only child for 6 years,...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “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 A new birth in a royal family usually comes with great pomp and fanfare. There is massivemedia saturation and a lot of celebration. But not in this case. He came as a King and Hisbirth could have been in a castle. Yet the babe born in the barn...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “Then Herod, when he had secretly called the wise men, determined from them what time the star appeared. 8 And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, ‘Go and search carefully for the young Child, and when you have found Him, bring back word to me, that I may come and worship Him also.’ 9 When they heard the king, they departed; and behold, the star which they had seen in the East went befo...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.” 1 Corinthians 12:31 I don’t have a recollection of when I was ever 100% completely satisfied with all my childhood Christmas gifts. How completely and utterly ungrateful! Guilty as charged! What a narcissistic ninny. Why, yes, that was me!  The Bible says in 1 Timothy 6:6, “godliness with contentment is grea...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure’” Isaiah 46:9-10 For centuries parents have been telling their children about Santa Claus. Although the idea of Santa Claus o...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.” 1 Corinthians 7:7 All believers possess at least one spiritual gift to serve others,All was designed by the Lord for Him to be seen and discovered.The Lord saw fit to wrap these gifts in us for Kingdom service,The gifts are diverse, yet each maintains a common...  Read More

SCRIPTURES: "Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of parched ground..." Isaiah 53:1,2a"God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Corinthians 5:21"But many of those who had heard the message believed; and the number of the men c...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: "For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell,"  Colossians 1:19  Jesus was born of God so that He might be God with us, Immanuel. We read in Colossians 1:19 that, “God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him.” The Bible often equates Jesus with God the Father, reinforcing this relationship. Genesis 1:1 tells us that God created the world, and Colossians...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “Oh the depth of both the riches and the wisdom of God. How unsearchable are his judgments and His ways past finding out.” Romans 11:33 I recently read that the above-named song “embraces the relationship between slave and Savior better than any of the surviving spirituals.” Written and sung by African-American slaves in the centuries before the Civil War, it considers the life of Chris...  Read More