Free Resources for Your Spiritual Goals of 2025

As you plan for your spiritual goals of 2025, I wanted to gather all the resources I have created over the last few years and put them in one post. You can link these and print them for yourself or feel free to share them with others. As always, I pray they are a blessing …

The Piercing Sword

Advent Day #17 And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be …

Peace on Earth

Advent Day #15 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,Glory to God in the highest,and on earth peace,good will toward men. Luke 2:13-14 Peace on earth—most people desire that wars cease, and love conquer hate. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, turned into a song, details …

The Now, But Not Yet

Advent Day #14 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.  Luke 2:11 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty …

The Extraordinary Wrapped In the Ordinary

Advent Day # 12 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. Luke 2:7 The internet is full of meaningful commentary on the swaddling clothes Jesus was wrapped in. Many believe it signifies His …

Jehovah-Jireh: God Will Provide Himself a Lamb

Advent Day #8 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel;for he hath visited and redeemed his people,And hath raised up an horn of salvation for usin the house of his servant David;As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets,which have been since the world began:   That we should be saved from our enemies,and …

The Long-Awaited One

Photo by Doralin Tunas on Pexels.com Advent Day 1 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations. Matthew 1:17             The anticipation of the long-awaited Messiah had ebbed …

So the Next Generation May Know

There are so many ways to study God’s Word. We live in a blessed generation with a variety of options at our fingertips. There are apps for phones, free computer programs, and old-fashioned pen-and-paper methods. A quick computer search offers hundreds of companies that create Bible studies and journals. If you have not found a …

Hope’s Song in Suffering Seasons

            Here in northeast Ohio, fiery autumn leaves litter the ground, as if the earth exhaled a heavy sigh and released them from their seasonal labor. Soon, every deciduous tree will lift empty limbs toward the sky, awaiting the icy, cold shroud of winter. For months, the darkness of winter will fall early, and most …

You Can Go Home Again

As a bird that wandereth from her nest,so is a man that wandereth from his place. Proverbs 27:8 This verse caused me to count the cities my family has lived in over the years. Since my childhood years in central Kansas, I have only returned to visit. Marriage scuttled us down to three diverse cities …