Scripture: Colossians 2:11-12 In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ; when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. Thought for the Day: This coming Sunday is Baptism of the Lord Sunday. Just over
Scripture: 1st Peter 4:8 Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins. Thought for the Day: In the movie, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the character named Sonny is talking to his mother, a very traditional woman in India, about his girlfriend. His mother only wants to talk about an arranged marriage with a young woman from their community. She says,
Scripture: Psalm 32:11 (the Message) Celebrate God. Sing together – everyone! All you honest hearts, raise the roof! Thought for the Day: Today is Epiphany, but I’d like to suggest that on Epiphany Sunday (yesterday) we truly celebrated God and did a little roof raising ourselves. Despite cold temperatures, the Cypress Creek Christian Church folks showed up and participated in another one of my nutty ideas, and I
REMINDER: Today is the twelfth and final day in our journey through the 12 days of Christmas (December 25 – January 5). It is Epiphany Eve, but also what is known as Epiphany Sunday. Epiphany is always January 6, but we celebrate Epiphany on the Sunday closest to the 6th. Scripture: Matthew 2:11 On entering the house, the wise men saw the child with Mary his mother; and
REMINDER: Today is the eleventh day in our journey through the 12 days of Christmas (December 25 – January 5). The wise men are getting closer to their destination, even on our entertainment center where they have remained distant throughout the month of December and early January. But now, with just a couple of days until Epiphany, they are drawing close to the child whose birth they desire
REMINDER: Today is the tenth day in our journey through the 12 days of Christmas (December 25 – January 5). It takes some patience to make our way through these days, but it was said that though patience can be difficult to grow, the fruit it bears is well worth the effort. Scripture: James 1:17-20 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming
REMINDER: Today is the ninth day in our journey through the 12 days of Christmas (December 25 – January 5). If yesterday was a good day for you, try your best to make today another good day. That way a pattern is started for 2014. Scripture: Matthew 15:1-3 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the
REMINDER: Today is the eighth day in our journey through the 12 days of Christmas (December 25 – January 5). In the dawn of this new day and this new year, how might the gift of Christ come alive in fresh ways, in ways we have yet to imagine? Scripture: Romans 7:6 But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so
REMINDER: Today is the seventh day in our journey through the 12 days of Christmas (December 25 – January 5). How have you seen Christmas continuing on despite most folks already looking ahead to St. Patrick’s Day? Scripture: Matthew 2:1-2 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
REMINDER: Today is the sixth day in our journey through the 12 days of Christmas (December 25 – January 5). We are halfway to Epiphany. I wonder what the halfway point would have been for the Magi, and would they have even known they were halfway to the place where they’d find whatever it was that they were to find? Scripture: Acts 15:4 When they (Paul and Barnabas)