Promises of Christmas - Light in the Darkness
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. Isaiah 9:2 NIVUK...
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Dec 24, 20238 min read
Promises of Christmas - Comfort in the Desert
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed,...
Dec 20, 202311 min read
Promises of Christmas - The Destruction of Innocents
This is what the Lord says: ‘A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be...
Dec 17, 20238 min read
Promises of Christmas - The Refugee and the Slave
‘When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. Hosea 11:1 NIVUK https://bible.com/bible/113/hos.11.1.NIVUK...
Dec 13, 20239 min read
Promises of Christmas - The Unusual Place
‘But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over...
Dec 10, 20237 min read
Promises of Christmas - The Unusual Promise
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. Isaiah...
Dec 6, 20239 min read
Promises of Christmas - The Boy Who Grew Up
A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him – the...
Dec 3, 20236 min read
Promises of Christmas - The Rising Star
‘I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a sceptre will rise out of Israel. He will crush the...
Nov 29, 20238 min read
Promises of Christmas - The Impossible is Possible
The Lord had said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. ‘I will make you...
Nov 26, 202310 min read
Promises of Christmas - In the Beginning
So the Lord God said to the snake, ‘Because you have done this, ‘Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl...
Dec 25, 20223 min read
The Poor Messiah - The Risen Man
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee...
Dec 24, 20224 min read
The Poor Messiah - A Suffering Man
He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was...
Dec 21, 20223 min read
The Poor Messiah - An Ordinary Looking Man
He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing...
Dec 18, 20224 min read
The Poor Messiah - A Backwater Upbringing
But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a...
Dec 14, 20223 min read
The Poor Messiah - A Refugee Family
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. ‘Get up,’ he said, ‘take the child and his mother and escape to...
Dec 11, 20224 min read
The Poor Messiah - A Teenage Mother
In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married...
Dec 7, 20225 min read
The Poor Messiah - A Mixed-up Heritage
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his...
Dec 26, 20215 min read
Christmas on the Outside - The Wise Men
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, ‘Where is the...
Dec 25, 20214 min read
Christmas on the Outside - The Shepherds
And there were shepherds living out in the fields near by, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to...
Dec 24, 20214 min read
Christmas on the Outside - Mary
In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married...
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