Thursday December 25, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our love! Read Luke 2:1-40 and Revelation 21 Merry Christmas!

Wednesday December 24, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our love! Read Psalm 37:30-40 The Lord helps and delivers those who take refuge in him. A meek person knows that they need help, they need to hide and be delivered. On this Christmas Eve we know that Jesus came in the form of a meek child. A helpless babe. He relied on God his father and ours, for everything. Take a moment and commit your ways to Jesus for this coming ye

Tuesday December 23, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our love! Read Daniel 7:9-14 As we look back at what God showed Daniel, we too get a future vision of The Kingdom of God. The word remember is in scritpure quite a bit. It is there so that we can remember that God does work in this world, his love is alive. We can see it when we look into our past with the eyes to see God's goodness and grace over our lives. There is not a

Monday December 22, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our LOVE! Read Exodus 13:17-22 Knowing Jesus Love It would be amazing to follow Jesus as clear as a pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night. In some ways I believe that would be easier than taking the time to listen to Jesus and follow the Holy Spirit’s promptings in our life. But this is not how it works. Sometimes we stumble around instead of follow, sometimes

Sunday December 21, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our LOVE! If you do advent in the morning, this is intended to be done after the Sunday Gathering. Join us on Sunday for worship at 10am. Or listen to the sermon here: Write A Note: Set aside some time to write an encouraging note to 3 of your loved ones. It will be helpful if you mail them this week but spend a few moments in prayer and allow the Holy Spirit to lead you to

Saturday December 20, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our JOY! Read Revelation 21 As we end our week that has been focused on joy. Spend a moment and acknowledge that you need Jesus to be your joy. Spend a few moments thanking Jesus for the joy that you have. Also acknowledge how much you need Jesus to be your joy for this next year. Also spend a moment perparing your heart for gathered worship tomorrow morning. We will be l

Friday December 19, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our joy! Read Matthew 5:1-12 The beatitudes are some of the most profound and thought provoking teachings of Jesus. Jesus wants us to live blessed lives, happy lives and then he shows us how to live in the beatitudes. They show us the way to live, the Jesus way and they also show us thier rewards. If we live the way that Jesus shows us, we will have joy. Lets make a plan to

Thursday December 18, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our joy! Read Romans 4:13-25 Faith is connected to joy. Joy doesn't need much to thrive. Joy needs to rest in the grace that Jesus provides by faith. Saving grace, but also grace for the day to day of life. We need the presence of Jesus in our life, and if it is there, even if your situation is not the best, we can have joy. It is not always easy to tap into the joy that

Wednesday December 17, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our joy! Read Psalm 37:20-29 as a prayer. Praying for joy in our life doesn't mean there is always an occation for joy. There are reasons, but mainly that reason is Jesus and the fact that we can delight in him. When we delight ourselves in the Lord, he will direct our steps. If he is directing them, then he is present as we take them. We can find great joy in knowing th

Tuesday December 16, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our joy! Read Daniel 6 Daniel had his faith tested. Was his joy in his relationship with God, or was it in his high ranking with the king? We can see that he truly loved God more than he loved his king. He made a great sacrifice, as all disciples are called to do, and he was rewarded with the presence and peace of God. In this he was also given great joy at seeing God work

Monday December 15, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our JOY! Read Exodus 12:21-28, 33-36 Joy in Sacrifice Hebrews 12:1-2 tells us: [1] Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, [2] looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set be

Sunday December 14, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our JOY! If you do advent in the morning, this is intended to be done after the Sunday Gathering. Join us on Sunday for worship at 10am. Or listen to the sermon here: Set aside some time to watch and enjoy the original The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.

Saturday December 13, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our PEACE! Read Revelation 21 As we end our week that has been focused on peace. Spend a moment and acknowledge that you need Jesus to be your peace. Spend a few moments thanking Jesus for the peace that you have. Also acknowledge how much you need Jesus to be your peace for this next year. Also spend a moment perparing your heart for gathered worship tomorrow morning. We

Friday December 12, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our peace! Read Matthew 6:25-34 When worry comes into our life it destroys peace. Maybe this is one of the reasons why Jesus keeps telling us to not worry. He invites us to place our trust in him, and to lay down our worries at his feet. In the Old Hymn Great is Thy Faithfulness there is the line: "All I have needeth, Thy hand hath provideth." This is true. This is the leve

Thursday December 11, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our peace! Read Romans 3:21-31 Even though none of us are perfect, Jesus still wants to give us his peace as a gift. There are a lot of times in our life that we have to recieve the peace of Jesus through faith. There is no reason we should be at peace or have peace, but Jesus gives it to us anyway. Through Jesus there is a peace that truly passes all understanding. Jesus

Wednesday December 10, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our peace! Read Psalm 37:10-19 as a prayer Psalm 37:11 says; "But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace." This is what we all want, abundant peace. Peace in our heart, peace in our family, peace in our city, our state, our country and the world. We want peace and an abundance of it sounds pretty great. As way of reminder the meaning of

Tuesday December 9, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our peace! Read Daniel 3:16-30 Write a Note: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were put into to a difficult situation. They were put to the fire, literally. It is way more comfortable sitting on this side of their story than having to walk through the fire. We know that they survived a furnace, turned up seven times what is normal. We know that their bounds were released and t

Monday December 8, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our PEACE! Read Exodus 2:23-3:12 Peace in Presence “But I will be with you, and this shall be a sign for you.” These are great words. Jesus left his Holy Spirit to witness these words to us. In the presence of Jesus there is great peace. Knowing that God is with us is powerful amidst the uncertainty of life. We all need the presence of Jesus in our life; I pray that we may s

Sunday December 7, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our PEACE! If you do advent in the morning, this is intended to be done after the Sunday Gathering. Join us on Sunday for worship at 10am. Or listen to the sermon here: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-6fqvt-19e3861 Prayer for Peace Spend some time praying for the peace of Jesus. We start with ourselves. We all want world peace, but Jesus works on all of our hearts. His peace

Saturday December 6, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our HOPE! Read Revelation 21 As we end our week that has been focused on hope. Spend a moment and acknowledge that you need Jesus to be your hope. Spend a few moments thanking Jesus for the hope that you have. Also acknowledge how much you need Jesus to be your hope for this next year. Also spend a moment perparing your heart for gathered worship tomorrow morning. We will

Friday December 5, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our hope! Read Matthew 6:1-4,19-21, 24 As we get ready to leave hope on Sunday, we don't just want our hope in Jesus to be for right now. There are some hopes, and some things we've learned about hope, or heard from Jesus about hope this season that we want to take with us. Let us plan so that we may also have hope in our future. Jesus is the light of the world. We need his

Thursday December 4, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our hope! Read Romans 5:6-11 Jesus gives us a new life. He makes us brand new. We are becoming a new creation. We are all in progress. As we are focused on hope, we need Jesus to come into our darkness and be our hope. This takes practice and creativity. One way to practice letting this new hope into our life is by allowing creativity to open up our imaginations. Jesus is

Wednesday December 3, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our hope! Read Psalm 37:1-9 as a prayer Psalm 37 is the Psalm of the meek. As it says in Matthew 5:5 is says "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." Meek means according to Oxford online dicitonary "Quite, gentle, and easily impossed on, submissive." We need to be all these things before Jesus if we are going to allow Jesus to be our hope. Where in your

Tuesday December 2, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our hope! Read Daniel 1:1-7 Write a note to yourself: Think about a time in your past that was difficult, but you've overcome at this point. As we think about the story of the Exodus and Daniel, Lord willing we will be able to see Jesus in our past as well. Write a note to yourself to remind yourself where you have seen Jesus at work in your life. When I say note, this can

Monday December 1, 2025 Light a candle and pray Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our HOPE! Read Exodus 1:1-22, 2:23-25 Sustained Hope Living with hope doesn’t mean things always look awesome. Hope doesn’t just live in light, as a part of the light, it can be in darkness too. If we look at this passage from Exodus, we can see that hope might take a long time to fulfill, and that in the waiting God is working. While the Israelites were enslaved, building a

Sunday November 30, 2025 Light a candle and pray: Jesus light of the world come into our darkness and be our HOPE! Join us on Sunday for worship at 10am. Or listen to the sermon here: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-63km3-19d8ef6 Participate in The Hope Box. The hope box activity is a time to pray through your current hopes and see what the Lord might do as you offer them to him as a gift. This can be a fun time of asking him, a form of prayer, for the areas that you want Jesu

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