Luke 2:22-35 {Prayer} What child is this? Despite popular opinion of some around here, my favorite Christmas hymn is not Go Tell It on the Mountain but instead is What Child is This. Not only is this my favorite Christmas hymn, but it can easily be one of those questions pondered by expecting…
Luke 1:38 {Prayer} The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was passed by Congress on September 16, 1940. It required all men between the ages of 21 and 35 to register with the Selective Service. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the naval base at Pearl…
Luke 2:8-20 {Prayer} Do you open your presents on Christmas Eve or on Christmas day? How about your stockings? Do you get to check those every day or just on Christmas morning? Is your tree artificial or real? Do you decorate the outside of your house as well as the inside? These…
Luke 1:39-45 {Prayer} Being that my daughter is ten and going on 17, it has been a while since I’ve been to a baby shower. And being that she is only ten, it better be a while before I attend another one. Last year seeing her as a pregnant Mary in the Christmas…
Luke 1:67-79 {Prayer} Don’t you just hate it when someone tells you something really awesome, really great … and you can’t tell anyone about it? Jessica and I have learned over the years that we don’t tell the kids what it is that we got each other for Christmas because they can’t keep…
Luke 2:21 {Prayer} Some people choose to find out if they are having a boy or a girl before he or she is born while others choose not to. Gender reveal parties are now a pretty common thing and there are so many different ways in which people do them. You can spend…
Luke 17:11-19 {Prayer} There is another version of the Offertory, a song which is giving thanks to God, which is based of Psalm 116:17-19. Here’s what these verses say, “I will offer to you a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows to the LORD…
Luke 21:5-28 {Prayer} I’ve mentioned before how Jessica and I like to watch the TV show “Deadliest Catch.” We’ve even gotten into the break-offs of the show which follow some of the fisherman around to different parts of the world. There was even a series on the crab fishing which takes place off of…
Romans 8:31-39 {Prayer} A couple of weeks ago I raised the question of why do we watch the same movie over and over again. The answer I gave was that we watch that movie over and over again because we know it delivers. Our favorite scene turns out the way it always has. We…
Luke 16:19-31 {Prayer} I want to share a poem for you written by Will Allen Dromgoole entitled, “The Bridge Builder.” An old man going a lone highway, Came, at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and deep and wide. Through which was flowing a sullen tide The old man crossed in…