Category: Advent Series

Advent 2019 – Day 1

Every year for over thirty years, our family has celebrated Advent with a series of 24 devotionals on a particular theme. Each year a new theme is chosen and this year is no different. So, without further adieu, the theme for 2019 is [drum roll, please] “Immanuel.” Almost a thousand years before the birth of …

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Advent 2018 – Day 21

Thankyou for staying with me through this Advent season. We have just a few more stories about God’s “I WILL” promises, though you’ll find plenty more in the Bible. When my husband was a child, Christmas holidays were difficult. Gene’s mother was hospitalized for many years. Family finances were tight. His father felt exhausted being …

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Advent 2018 – Day 18

God’s “I WILL” promises keep coming. Here’s another for you to ponder during this Advent season. Every year we receive Christmas letters from friends with news of how God has blessed them in the past twelve months. Recently, we had a face-to-face reunion with old friends over lunch. We hadn’t seen Roger and Bobbie for …

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Advent 2018 – Day 17

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 …

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