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

SCRIPTURE: “…where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.” Colossians 3:11“He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.” Ephesians 4:10 I thought I was satisfied with knowing Jesus Christ came to earth to be our Emmanuel - God with us (Isaiah 7:14). ...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23-24 Have you ever considered the 400 years of silence between the books of Malachi, whose name means “My Messenger,” and Matthew, whose name means “gift of Yahweh” (God)? Did it take God the Son 400 years to accept the earthly as...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning." James 1:17 Christians during Christmas should seize an exclusive opportunity to honor, Christ Jesus,Sadly, believers and unbelievers anticipate and celebrate for the wrong intentions and reasons.It’s a projected period and season around...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manager. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” Luke 2: 11-14 Without Christ there is ...  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 massive media saturation and a lot of celebration. But not in this case. He came as a King and His birth could have been in a castle. Yet the babe born in the ba...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds.” Luke 2:18 Have you ever observed a jaded or cynical individual and wondered when did they lose their sense of wonder? When did they lose the capacity to marvel at the beauties of the created world? A beautiful sunset or a sunrise, the sight of a bird of prey, like a hawk or an eagle gliding acro...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 15:58 Our eternal God and our gracious Father in heaven, once again as a people we gather together to bow our hearts in Your presence in anticipation that You would once again speak to us.  We are indeed thankful with ever...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" Romans 8:35 "Summer, and Winter, and Springtime and Harvest ...join with all nature in manifold witness to Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love..." So goes a measure of that wonderful hymn, to remind us, all of us, that regardless of the season,...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.” Colossians 3:17 And so it was, I worked on Thanksgiving Day. I came in with a message, “You guys, thank God for giving us Jesus!” as I entered the Documentation Room on our unit at work. Just like any other day, the technicians were babbling and scrambling over thei...  Read More

SCRIPTURE:  “Then Mary said, ‘Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your Word.’ And the angel departed from her.”   Luke 1:38 The mother was Mary. The child was Jesus. And His was a birth like no other, for in Him God took on human flesh. Mary did not doubt the announcement from Gabriel, but she did ask the question: How? She didn’t question God’s power or ability, but s...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: “ But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them." 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 The Christ-rejecting world puts strong credence in the old axiom, “seeing is believing;” but our Creator God, from Genesis t...  Read More

SCRIPTURE: ”But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for [a]i...  Read More