It is Advent. Mary is 36 weeks pregnant, and baby Jesus is due any day. How do we learn to wait for a baby savior? Waiting for Christmas is about waiting for a baby to be born, and as any mom will tell you, that kind of waiting is hard work. We get impatient. We …
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Learning Peace: Day 3- Dayna Olson-Getty
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great …
Learning Peace: Day 2- Beth Dotson
Jesus said: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid.” John 14: 27 I have waited with many who are waiting to have children. Often this path is not full of …
Learning Peace: Day 1- Elizabeth Hagan
Fourth Sunday of Advent There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. Coming up to …
Love That Groans: Day 6- Jennifer Harris Dault
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! 2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you! 3 For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, …
Love That Groans: Day 5: Susan Smartt Cook
“Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.” Psalm 8:10 As a midwife, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing love at it’s most primal, it’s most raw. Midwives talk of a woman wandering off to “labor land,” where her neocortex is quiet and her animal body is in charge. So often we relegate love …
Love That Groans- Day 4: Joy Bennett
“I am confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” Psalm 27:13 I’ve waited for the labor pains to push a child out of me four times. My firstborn, a girl, slid into our arms on a frosty February morning. We had no idea that four …
Waiting With Hope: Day 2– Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Did you miss Day 1 post? Click here. To learn more about the scope of this Advent devotional project click here. Then he blessed them and told Mary, “This child of yours will cause many people in Israel to fall and others to stand. The child will be like a warning sign. Many people will …
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Waiting With Hope Day 1– Sarah Jobe
Our Advent “Baby Jesus Blog” devotions begin today. Follow our postings each day of Advent. To learn more about the scope of the project click here. At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and …
Waiting With the Shepherds
Waiting with the Shepherds Luke 2:8-12 Who is on your list of people that you don’t like? Of course, talking about people who we don’t like isn’t really something we often do in public, especially in church. And, I know it is Christmas. Most of us are well on our way to be appearing to …
Waiting with the Prophets
Advent 1: Jeremiah 33:14-16 I’m proud of you for being in church today for the season of busyness is upon us. No longer in the causal days of fall activities, and not yet to the Sunday before Christmas (where everyone seems to feel the call stronger to go to church). Seemingly it feels like a …
Don’t Leave Without Saying Goodbye
Have you ever been in a situation where a houseguest has left early in the morning before you woke up? Or you’ve parted ways with a friend in a mad dash to the airport without final words? Or you haven’t been able to find that favorite teacher or buddy in the midst of the large crowds …
