A beautifully done online Advent calender using the carved ivory panel which is displayed at the Louvre in Paris. Points in the panel are numbered for each day of Advent and linked to a full devotional for each day.
preparations
First Day of Advent 2011
First Sunday Advent 2011 Sunday, November 27, 2011 is the first day of Advent for this year’s Christmas observance. We are less than a month away! So ready your preparations for the holiday season, with an eye towards going deeper with God, and allowing Him to be your joy and bring His peace into your…
24. Iron
Smooth and wrinkle free is not the epitome of good housekeeping skills any more than the “white glove test” (white glove test?), but we still use irons on occasion to take out whatever wrinkles remain after the permanent press cycle. There are a number of places mentioned in scriptures where God evens things out and…
22. Chair
The week leading to Christmas has a theme of “Peace”, but how hectic this countdown becomes for us. Five more days until Christmas! Few of us have time to sit quietly in a chair and read or meditate. More of us sink exhaustively in front of a mindless TV show trying to recover from one…
21. Puzzles
At our house, jigsaw puzzles are a traditional Christmas activity. For some people, crosswords or sudoku puzzles are brain challenging pastimes that occupy a favorite time in the day. God puts together the mystery of His realities in revelations like puzzle parts… the more of which we see, the more clearly evident the whole becomes….
8. Towel
Light the Love candle today. How often do you use a towel in your kitchen or bathroom? And what sort of towels do you use? Dish towels, guest towels, bath towels and washcloths, old towels and new, to pat, dry, or mop up? Most of us are lucky enough to own many towels and some…
Ways to Observe an Advent Tradition
Are you ready for the Christmas season? Advent tradtions can be one of the most enriching observances of the holiday. Many of us take time to go shopping (probably more than we should, or even want to!), we bake our cookies and make candy, we deck the halls, and the walls, and the railings! But…
(26) Good Tidings
Scripture: Luke 2:8-14 The Shepherds and the Angels And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be…
(9) Message of Promise: Spirit And Power of Elijah
Scripture for today Luke 1:16-17 “Many of the people of Israel will he bring back to the Lord their God. And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make…
(5) Prepare the Way for Promises
December 3 Scripture: 2 Corinthians 7 1 Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God Thoughts: Sometimes we think if someone gives us the promise of something that everything is then up to them. We don’t see it…
