Tag: Christmas Devotion

Making Room in the Temple Within

Explore this  reflective devotion sharing how to make room for Jesus in the temple of your heart and daily life.  As promised, this devotion concludes our reflections on “The Inn Within,” which began last Sunday. The theme has lingered in my heart, and today we drill deeper. Scripture gently but firmly presses us beyond the familiar Christmas scene and into a personal question that cannot be avoided: not merely whether there was room for Jesus then, but whether there is room for Him now.

Jesus, God’s Light for All People | Luke 2 Devotional

Reflect on Simeon’s testimony and discover Jesus as God’s light for all people, fulfilling humanity’s greatest hope.  In the crowded courts of the Jerusalem temple, an elderly man held the greatest hope of the ages in his arms. Simeon had waited faithfully, trusting God’s promise that he would not die before seeing the Messiah. When he looked upon the infant Jesus, Simeon did not see weakness or obscurity—he saw salvation itself. His words remind us that Christmas is not only about a child born in Bethlehem, but about God’s light breaking into the darkness of the world for all people.

The Word Who Was with God and Is God

Explore this Advent devotion reflecting on Jesus as the eternal Word, foretold by prophets and revealed as God with us.  Before there was light, before there was life, the Word already was. Advent draws our hearts back to the deepest mystery of Christmas: the Child we await did not begin in Bethlehem. He stepped into time from eternity. John opens his Gospel not with a manger, but with eternity itself: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). Written near the close of the first century, these words echo Genesis and declare that Jesus Christ is no created being, prophet or teacher, but God Himself, active before creation ever began.