Tuesday, December 13, 2022“God’s Abiding Care” – Read Jude 1:17-25 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s lov...  Read More

Monday, December 12, 2022“The Parenthesis of Joy” – Read Psalm 42As the deer pants for streams of water, / so my soul pants for you, my God.My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. / When can I go...  Read More

Sunday, December 11, 2022 “Be Truly Glad. There is a Wonderful Joy Ahead!” – Read Isaiah 35:1-10 The desert and the parched land will be glad; / the wilderness will rejoice and  blossom. / Like the cr...  Read More

Saturday, December 10, 2022“A Repentance of Love” – Read Luke 3:1-18    “A voice of one calling in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way for the Lord . . .” (v. 4, NIV)Advent is a time of preparing for the...  Read More

Friday, December 9, 2022 “God’s Love Song to You” – Read Zephaniah 3:14-17 The Lord will take great delight in you; / in love the Lord will no longer rebuke you, / but will rejoice over you with singi...  Read More

Thursday, December 8, 2022“The God of Second Chances” – Read 2 Peter 3:1-10 “God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End...  Read More

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 “The Game with Stars” – Read Genesis 15:1-6The Lord took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “...  Read More

Tuesday, December 6, 2022“The Family that Loves Together Learns Together” – Read Romans 15:14-21 “I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with ...  Read More

Monday, December 5, 2022“A Meditation on Love, inspired by the Ancients” – Read 1 John 4:19-21 We love because he first loved us. (v.19, NIV)O Lord, your servant St. Basil once said in the 4th century...  Read More

Sunday, December 4, 2022“Love is the Model” – Read Matthew 3:1-12“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. H...  Read More

Saturday, December 3, 2022“A Merciful Hope” – Read Isaiah 40:1-11“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. (v. 1, CEB)Recently I journeyed through a great grief, and I am here today to bear witness...  Read More

Friday, December 2, 2022 “A Hope that Overcomes” (Ps. 72, Part Two) – Read Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Let him judge your people with righteousness / and your poor ones with justice. (v. 2, CEB)I have had sev...  Read More