Advent Devotionals 2015

Ephesians 1: 3-6 How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing

Matthew 3: 1-3 In those days John the Baptist appeared in the desert of Judea announcing, “Change your hearts and lives! Here comes the kingdom of heaven!” He was the

Luke 3: 7-18 John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit

Luke 3:7-18 Then John said to the crowds who came to be baptized by him, “You children of snakes! Who warned you to escape from the angry judgment that is

Matthew 2:10-11 When they saw the star, they were filled with joy. They entered the house and saw the child with Mary his mother. Falling to their knees, they honored

Revelation 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” Advent is a time of waiting

Mark 9:36-37He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, ‘Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my

O God,I have never known you to coerce, to punish, or to condemn, but you have made me wait.It was the waiting of a pregnant Mother sensing a new birth.

Ephesians 3:17b – 19…And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long

Luke 3:2b-6“[T]he word of God came to John … in the wilderness. He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of