As I open my Bible to the Old Testament, butterflies dance inside me. My heart jumps when I read the Old Testament. The first class in Old Testament in my short stint in seminary ~ whether from the professor’s compassionate homilies or just reading the text ~ was the beginning, the spark, that caused me [...]
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Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.” When Herod the king heard this, [...]
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Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit. And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly. But when [...]
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Lights frame front porches, glow in windows, sparkle over still green bushes. Down the highway, shining bulbs spell out ‘PEACE ON EARTH’ like they do every year, giant letters tall in an empty field. There is something about those lights… something more than how pretty the colors look against the fading cold-weather land. Every Christmas [...]
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By Shenay Shumake I was five years old when I fell in love with Christmas. It was the first time I can recall ever watching A Charlie Brown Christmas. I sat cross legged in my living room, cotton flannel nightgown and head turned sideways staring at the big screen in front of me. I was [...]
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“Isn’t He beautiful, beautiful, Isn’t He? Prince of peace, Son of God, isn’t He…” so the praise hymn goes, and so goes my heart and spirit caught in thrall with my Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. And yet, I find in the Bible, as Isaiah prophesies about Jesus, in chapter 53 in verse 2b [...]
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Psalm 119:89-94a
God’s Word is life to me. These are not words I speak lightly or out of obedience as the proper words for a daughter of the King to speak. No, I speak them as one who has known hunger, and who has known need; as one who has fallen and one who has been lost not. In these things, out of the depths of my need I can say, “God’s Word is life.” It has brought light into my darkness, and strength into my weakness. It brings hope into my broken places, and feeds my hungry soul. Truly Lord, “I will never forget your precepts for by them you have given me life.”
The Word saves. The Word strengthens, and is everything to those of us whose hearts desire to be fully His.
Lord, thank you for your Word, and for your faithfulness. You are God, and I am yours.
His alone,
Nicole