While I kept silence, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah (Psalm 32:3-4, NRSV) When we bottle up the wrong things we do, those sins that keep us from GodContinue reading “The Joy of Forgiveness”
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What will you do this year?
It is a new year! 2017 is gone and 2018 is here and now is the time we think about what we will do this year. So what are your resolutions this year? Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to quit smoking? Maybe it’s to quit drinking. Maybe you want to saveContinue reading “What will you do this year?”
The Joy of Forgiveness
Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. (Psalm 32:1-2, NRSV) Is your sin covered? Not do you have it covered up so no one can see it because even if you think you have itContinue reading “The Joy of Forgiveness”
A Voice in the Wilderness
This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, “I am not the Messiah.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.” ThenContinue reading “A Voice in the Wilderness”
The Boy Jesus in the Temple
Now every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival. When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. Assuming that he wasContinue reading “The Boy Jesus in the Temple”
Jesus is Presented in the Temple
And the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was being said about him. Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, “This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be opposed so that the inner thoughts of many will beContinue reading “Jesus is Presented in the Temple”
Jesus is Presented in the Temple
After eight days had passed, it was time to circumcise the child; and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord(as itContinue reading “Jesus is Presented in the Temple”
Wise Men
In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.” When King Herod heard this, he wasContinue reading “Wise Men”
Birth of Jesus Foretold
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.” But she was muchContinue reading “Birth of Jesus Foretold”
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