When it came to Christmas, Love didn’t send a card. Love didn’t dispatch an ambassador. Love came in person. Caesar Augustus thought he was ordering a census. He didn’t realize he was positioning players for the greatest arrival in history. While an empire flexed its muscles, heaven held its breath. Then, in an unremarkable town,…

The Advent season continues, that ancient tradition of preparing our hearts to celebrate Christ’s birth. We now move into the fourth and final week, whose theme is love, and that will be our focus through Christmas at “Change Begins in You.” Before the stable, before the star, before the angels’ song—God loved you. “I have…

Today, we continue the third week of the Advent season with our focus on joy. Do you have all your plans together for where you’re going this Christmas? One of the best parts of the season is getting together with all your friends and loved ones and seeing them face to face. There’s so much…

Today, we continue the third week of the Advent season with our focus on joy. Don’t you just love the promises of God? In John 15:9-11, Jesus makes an extraordinary promise to his disciples: “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you…

The Advent season continues, that ancient tradition of preparing our hearts to celebrate Christ’s birth. We now move into the third week, whose theme is joy, and that will be our focus all week at “Change Begins in You.” Isaiah 35 provides a vivid description of the joy experienced by God’s redeemed people. We read…

Today, we continue the second week of the Advent season with our focus on peace. Advent reminds us that Jesus came once and that He’s coming again. Revelation 21 gives us a glimpse of what that second coming means: “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning…

Today, we continue the second week of the Advent season with our focus on peace. Jesus spoke the following words in John 14:27 just hours before He was arrested and sent to the cross: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do…

The Advent season continues, that ancient tradition of preparing our hearts to celebrate the birth of Christ at Christmas. We now move into the second week, whose theme is peace, and that will be our focus all week here at “Change Begins in You.” When God promised a Prince of Peace in Isaiah 9:6, Israel…

Today, we continue the first week of the Advent season with our focus on hope. In Revelation 21, we read about the day that our hope becomes sight. Apostle John writes, “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth… And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem… And I heard a loud voice…

Today, we continue the first week of the Advent season with our focus on hope. We read in Romans 15:13, “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope” Notice Apostle Paul’s prayer. He prays not…