devotion – Page 20 – Lauri Hawley

Service Reboot: 22 Ways to Serve in 2022

Now is a great time to consider freshening up your worship to God through service.

Interholiday Introspection

How are you spending this week between Christmas and New Year’s Day?

Are you feeling blue because Christmas has passed for another year? Or maybe this season really hasn’t been that great, and you’re happy to see it go!

A Christmas Prayer

I pray that today you sense the true presence of Immanuel, God with us.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Light and Life

Here in the northern hemisphere, we just passed the longest night of darkness this year. From here on out, daylight grows longer and longer until June 21.

Is it true that it’s always darkest before the dawn?

Dayspring

Darkness Then

The times were dark. It had been over 730 years since the people had been humbled by Assyrian invaders, and now they lived under Roman rule.

What was it like?

The surrounding pungency of hay, hitting his nostrils for the first time . . .

The cool night air brushing against his newborn flesh for the first time . . .