Author: Emily Chase

Thanks for hanging out with me during Advent. Here’s another of God’s “I WILL” promises! During Christmas, families gather, and for many families, that means sky-rocketing stress. Voices get louder, harsher. Old wounds reopen. But for my family, I am grateful that times together are marked by explosions of laughter and love. My daughter has …

Glad you are back! This series of Advent devotionals on God’s “I WILL” promises is my own Christmas gift to you! As a child, were you ever tempted to get a sneak preview of what was hiding under the Christmas tree? Did you shake a gift to see if it contained a new Lego set? …

Here we are on Day 15 and we still have not exhausted the supply of “I WILL” promises from God! Every year in December, familiar jokes appear about the dad trying to assemble his daughter’s dollhouse or mom struggling to put together her son’s bicycle on the night before Christmas. No one ever looks at …

Are gifts accumulating under your tree? Are you eager to open them? Don’t hurry through these last days of Advent without remembering the rest of God’s “I WILL” promises. What was your favorite Christmas gift when you were a child? A bike? A dollhouse? A video game? I bet that a heavy stack of math …

We are over halfway through Advent already! Thanks for returning to read about God’s “I WILL” promises! Every year my husband and I shop on line and in stores, searching for the perfect Christmas gift for each person on our list. The process can be mentally and physically exhausting. Even trying to find a single …

Welcome to newcomers to our Advent series on God’s “I WILL” promises. I hope you return again and again! As we open Christmas cards these days, inevitably one card will quote the angels announcement to the shepherds of Bethlehem: “Peace on earth and good will towards men!” But as we look around our world it …

Thanks for pausing from your Christmas activities to spend a moment here. Here’s another of God’s “I WILL” promises to take with you today. Given all the running around as we shop for gifts and attend Christmas parties, it is easy to catch a cold and end up in bed. I remember one horrible holiday …

Back again? I’m so grateful that in the hustle and bustle of the season, you have chosen to spend a few moments here reading about God’s “I WILL” promises. An earlier Advent devotional in this series mentioned my friend Fred who lost his wife just a few weeks ago. Fred is grieving as we near …

Thanks for coming back to read another Advent devotional about God’s “I WILL” promises. I hope your moments spent here are like a quiet eddy in the rush of the holiday activities. “Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” I laugh when I …

Thanks for returning to join us for today’s devotional in our Advent series on the theme of God’s “I WILL” promises. In December of last year, my husband and I spent our first Christmas at our new apartment in our retirement community. Decades of shoveling snow, cleaning gutters and raking leaves had lost their delight, …