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From today's devotional, Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. —Hebrews 2:14–15 TheContinue reading “Infant Lowly”

Today's devotional is about Christmas being a model for missions. Christ came to Earth, but his welcome was less than spectacular. Well, other than the angel choir singing his arrival… But no one, other than a few shepherds, heard and saw that. He was born in a stable… His own eventually rejected him. As heContinue reading “As I, So You”

From today's Advent devotional, Christ bore our sins in his own body when he died. He took our judgment. He canceled our guilt. And that means the sins are gone. They do not remain in God’s mind as a basis for condemnation. In that sense, he “forgets” them. They are consumed in the death ofContinue reading “A New Reality”

Today's devotional deals with "God's Most Successful Setback."  As I read the devotional, I thought, "I must be one of His success stories, too, with all the setbacks in my life." Granted, many of those setbacks were of my own making… but God has been faithful throughout. And this is God’s way for us too.Continue reading “Setbacks…”

I have to admit, this is a hard Christmas. Dad always loved having the family around for Christmas Eve, which was when we opened presents. He would sit there and watch everyone open their presents. His hearing was gone for the most part in later years, so I've really no idea how much he heard,Continue reading “Life and Death… and life”

Read today's devotional and got to this paragraph: So the meaning of Christmas is not only that God replaces shadows with Reality, but also that he takes the reality and makes it real to his people. He writes it on our hearts. He does not lay his Christmas gift of salvation and transformation down forContinue reading “Children of God”

We have a Saviour!   Jesus deals directly with God the Father. He has a place of honor beside God. He is loved and respected infinitely by God. He is constantly with God. This is not shadow reality like curtains and bowls and tables and candles and robes and tassels and sheep and goats andContinue reading “The reality is”

Today's devotional deals with shadows. It brings to mind much of what has been going on in my head these past few months since my father's death. I brought home a box of photos that I and some of the siblings had gone through at my parents' house following the funeral and I just recently sortedContinue reading “Shadows”

I attended the Christmas concert at Grace Baptist this evening and it was truly a blessing. The music, the singers, the message, it was all grand and beautiful. My daughter was feeling under the weather, so she stayed home and I provided some respite for her and took all three grandsons with. We joined family forContinue reading “Unspeakable Joy!”

Ok, so I was looking through past years' songs and discovered I've never shared a Mannheim Steamroller Christmas song!  That's madness!!  I remember the first time I heard the first album, in 1987.  It had been a gift from my mother-in-law, and I fell in love with it the first time I heard it.  IContinue reading “Deck the Halls”