Advent 2025, Week 4: John’s Light of Christmas Past/Present/Future, Part 5 In the previous posts this week, I’ve point out how Jesus is the light of Christmas past and present. Now we travel to the future, when Jesus, the light of the world, returns. In Revelation 21:23–24, we read a vision of that future light,Continue reading “The future light of Jesus is available now”
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The light that never goes out
Advent 2025, Week 3: Psalm 139, Part 5 This guest post is by Molly Stouffer, a ministry student at Regent University. Does anything feel like darkness in your life right now? Maybe it’s sin that you can’t seem to shake yourself from, or shame that you’ve carried for such a long time that you feelContinue reading “The light that never goes out”
How the light of Jesus can help us heal relationships
Advent 2025, Week 4: John’s Light of Christmas Past/Present/Future, Part 4 Jesus, the light of Christmas present, can bring healing to our broken relationships. Do you have any broken relationships in your life? John elaborates on this in his epistle, his letter, 1st John, chapter 1, verse 5, “This is the message we have heardContinue reading “How the light of Jesus can help us heal relationships”
The significance of the night being bright as day for God
Advent 2025, Week 3: Psalm 139, Part 4 This guest post is by Molly Stouffer, a ministry student at Regent University. In Psalm 139, verse 12, when David explains that the dark is not too dark for God, it’s because the night is bright as the day. But how? To understand this, think about theContinue reading “The significance of the night being bright as day for God”
A new light is shining in the darkness
Advent 2025, Week 4 – John’s Light of Christmas Past/Present/Future, Part 2 What is the darkness in your life? Maybe it is in a relationship. Maybe it is inside you, like anxiety, which is a part of my life, or depression. These long dark nights, like yesterday, the winter solstice. The longest, darkest night ofContinue reading “A new light is shining in the darkness”
Difficult family relationships at the holidays
Advent 2025, Week 4 – John’s Light of Christmas Past/Present/Future, Part 1 I have a friend from college who, together with his wife, have experienced numerous difficulties in parenting. Our kids are about the same age, and they even had three boys then a girl just like us. One of their sons married, then soonContinue reading “Difficult family relationships at the holidays”
Jesus’ parable that inspired Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Advent 2025, Week 4 – Light of Christmas Past/Present/Future, Preview Will you watch a dramatization of Charles Dickens’ famous A Christmas Carol this holiday season? Some literary scholars believe that Dickens’ source material is one of Jesus’ parables. What parable do you think might have sparked Dickens’ imagination to think about ghosts? Does Jesus haveContinue reading “Jesus’ parable that inspired Dickens’ A Christmas Carol”
The confusion of darkness
Advent 2025, Week 3 – Psalm 139, Part 1 This guest post is by Molly Stouffer, a ministry student at Regent University. I want you to imagine with me waking up in the middle of the night. And instead of drifting off to sleep again, you realize something. You aren’t where you fell asleep. You’reContinue reading “The confusion of darkness”
Mighty children and fabulous wealth
Advent 2025, Week 1: Psalm 112, Part 3 Two of the primary hopes parents long for is (1) that their children do well, and (2) that they have enough money to provide for their kids. Parents can expend mountains of emotional energy on these two important concerns throughout the parenting years, and even long afterContinue reading “Mighty children and fabulous wealth”
How Jesus fulfills a prophecy about being light in the darkness – Christmas 2022, Part 4
One of the guys who wrote the story of his friend Jesus, as I said in an earlier post this week, was Matthew. Matthew, like John, was one of the 12 disciples who followed Jesus around for three years, learning from Jesus how to shine light in the darkness of the world. Matthew tells usContinue reading “How Jesus fulfills a prophecy about being light in the darkness – Christmas 2022, Part 4”
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