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Jesus for All: For All the People—Love in the Ordinary
The Angles said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.” Luke 2:10, ESV It’s easy to miss how ordinary the moment was. When the angel announced the birth of Jesus, the Messiah wasn’t revealed to kings,...
Jesus for All: Great Joy—Needing Space
The Angles said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.” Luke 2:10, ESV The angel doesn’t promise mild contentment or fleeting cheer. He announces great joy. The kind of joy that can survive a dark night, an...
Jesus for All: Good News—Here and Now
The Angles said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.” Luke 2:10, ESV If Week 1 began with “Fear not,” Week 2 picks up with heaven’s next breath: good news. Not average news. Not seasonal news. Not “your...
Jesus for All: Fear Not—The First Word of Christmas
The Angles said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.” Luke 2:10, ESV Advent always seems to sneak up on us—right between the leftover pumpkin pie and the first frantic Walmart run (or late-night Amazon...
Saturday: The Silence
“But we were hoping that he was the one who was about to redeem Israel.”— Luke 24:21, CSB It’s Saturday. The cross has already happened. The tomb is sealed. Jesus is dead. And the silence is deafening. The disciples are scattered. Confused. Afraid. Grieving. This...
Friday: Finished Means Finished
“It is finished.” — John 19:30, CSB Good Friday. The day that changed everything. In the quiet of the morning, Jesus, the Son of God, was condemned to death by crucifixion. He carried His cross through the streets of Jerusalem, bearing the weight of the world’s sin....
Thursday: Remembering the Master
“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” — John 13:35, CSB It’s Thursday of Holy Week.The cross is just hours away. But before the nails, before the trial, before the garden…we find Jesus gathered at a table with His disciples....
Wednesday: The Silent Betrayal
“Then one of the Twelve, the man called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, ‘What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?’ So they weighed out thirty pieces of silver for him. And from that time he started looking for a good opportunity...
Tuesday: The Fig Tree—Faith that Bears Fruit
"Early in the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, 'May no fruit ever come from you again!' At once the fig tree withered." — Matthew...
Monday: Turning Over Tables—and Our Hearts
"Jesus went into the temple and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. He said to them, 'It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of...
Palm Sunday: The Arrival of the King
"The next day, when the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, they took palm branches and went out to meet him. They kept shouting: 'Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord — the King of Israel!'" — John...
Closer: Don’t Just Watch
“Now Moses took a tent and pitched it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone who wanted to consult the Lord would go to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp. Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people...