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Daily Devotional: December 23rd, 2019
God’s Will Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 How can we as a church find God’s will? We must depend on the Lord with all our hearts to find His will. As we look to the future as a church, let us pray and wait for His answers. It is only through prayer and meditation that we can know what is from the Lord and what is from our…
Daily Devotional: December 22nd, 2019
Love All Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two…
Daily Devotional: December 21st, 2019
The Shortest Day 9 hours, 41 minutes, and 9 seconds. If you live in Hendersonville, TN this is how much daylight you will actually get today. In perspective, on June 20th, 2020, the longest day of the year, you will have 14 hours, 38 minutes, and 15 seconds, that’s 4 hours, 57 minutes, 06 seconds difference. Devotionals on the longest night typically focus on Blue Christmas, centered around the hope and healing of those who for this season rather than…
Daily Devotional: December 20th, 2019
Depending On God We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 Ask yourself, am I growing in faith and in love for my brothers and sisters in the Lord? Paul explains in 2 Thessalonians that these Christians were going through many trials. He writes to them that he is so encouraged…
Daily Devotional: December 19th, 2019
Finding Rest We’re less than a week away from Christmas and everyone is in need of a break. With all the hustle and bustle of the season how do we find the time for rest? Finding time to relax in the holiday season can help you recenter and refocus on the birth of Jesus. There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let…
What is Blue Christmas?
It is a time to recognize that Christmas can be a bittersweet time of the year. The constant refrain we hear about getting together with family, reminds many people of what and who they have lost, or what they never had. The anguish of broken relationships, the insecurity of unemployment, the weariness of ill health, the loss of a loved one, the pain of isolation- all these can make us feel very much alone in the midst of the festive…
Daily Devotional: December 18th, 2019
Blue Christmas And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. John 14:16-17 As we prepare for our Blue Christmas Service tonight, we should all take time to reflect on those who are in need of some hope or are…
Daily Devotional: December 17th, 2019
Shedding Tears When I think of the times that I have lost someone or something, most often it makes the tears roll down my cheeks. In public places we try so hard to hide them so that no one can see but in private we let them run like a river that we think will never stop. Tears are nothing to be ashamed of. Most of the time we feel relief and some healing after a good cry. They represent…
Daily Devotional: December 16th, 2019
Faith, Love, And HOpe We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 1:3 Do we really cry out to the Lord to strengthen us in faith, love and hope so that we will understand and do His will? Faith, love, and hope do not come from us, but from God. He tells us that the scriptures, His Holy Spirit and prayer will…
Daily Devotional: December 15th, 2019
Give More For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17 Reflection: Immanuel means God with us. From the very beginning, relationships have mattered to God. What would it look like this week for you to focus less on the presents and more on giving your…
Turn your Christmas upside down this year and do the season differently…
LET US CONSPIRE TOGETHER TO NOT ONLY SPEND LESS BUT GIVE MORE Although it was a cold rain misty morning, our hearts were warm and full as we gave out 153 families ( probably close to 600-800 people) and our Youth and Kitchen Crew fed 153 people. And thanks to all our servant volunteers in every area of the church from our hospitality crew to our encouraging escorts who really rocked it this time to our unloaders, table people and…
Daily Devotional: December 14th, 2019
Giving your SPIRITUAL Gifts Giving gifts is common this time of year. Everyone is trying to get the newest, flashiest toy or gadget, but are you taking the time this season to give out your spiritual gifts to others in your life? The spiritual gifts were laid out in the new testament mostly in the Pauline epistles, the specific verses are: We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in…