Making Room for Jesus: Lessons from the Nativity Story. “No room.” Those two simple words must have really hit hard! Mary and Joseph had already travelled a brutal 90-mile journey. Mary was heavily pregnant, and Joseph was scrambling to provide…
Christmas Day Reflection And Prayer. Christmas is such a special time of the year – full of lights, songs, gifts, and gatherings. But it’s easy to get caught up in all the festivities and miss the heart of it all.…
Why did the angels appear to humble shepherds first? Picture this: it’s a cold night out in the fields – just another graveyard shift for a group of shepherds. Men who were unimpressive, average, ordinary. The last people you’d expect…
How to Respond When You Encounter Jesus. The shepherds didn’t hesitate. After hearing the angel’s announcement about the Savior’s birth, they didn’t debate, analyze, or wait for a better time. Luke 2:16 says they “hurried off” to find Jesus. I love that these men weren’t…
Lessons on What It Means To Pursue Jesus. The wise men, or Magi, are intriguing figures in the Christmas story. They weren’t Jewish and they weren’t from Israel. Scripture tells us that they were scholars, astronomers, and possibly priests from…
Understanding Herod’s Reaction to Jesus’ Birth. Power has a funny way of making people nervous. When Herod, the king of Judea at that time, heard the news that a new “king of the Jews” had been born, he wasn’t celebrating.…
Hearing God and Trusting His Voice. Life doesn’t always go as planned, even when you’re doing exactly what God has called you to do. It has a way of throwing a curveball at you when you least expect it! That’s exactly…
Step into God’s future with hope and purpose. The end of the year is the perfect time to pause, reflect, and look back at the year that has passed. We remember the highs and the lows, the goals we reached…
Embrace your identity as a new creation in Christ. Happy New Year! There’s something undeniably special about the first page of a new chapter. It’s crisp, clean, and full of potential! This sense of a fresh start isn’t just a…
During a lunch date with friends recently, the subject of Christian vision boards came up, and as I’m sure you can imagine, it was a rather lively discussion! There was a lot of debate among us on whether Christian vision…