Advent Thirteen

Don’t Wait Too Long

How long had this people waited? Lost, cut off, waiting, and wondering. When will our saviour come? How long must we wait? How long will we wait? Today our saviour is here! Today we have the choice to accept Him and His free gift of salvation or to reject Him and lose that precious gift?

The Lord’s Servant

Amidst the Busyness

Prepare my heart to receive you this Christmas Amidst all the busyness, the shopping and the presents In amongst the food and the parties, the decorating and the trimmings Let me find time for you With all of our traditions help me to remember why you came May I dig beneath the wrapping paper of

Sacrifice

Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices for the birth of a son, as they were instructed to do so by the Jewish Law. They made their sacrifices for the one who would become the ultimate sacrifice. For the one who freely gave up everything to be a sacrifice for any

Faith and Honour

If Mary was a lady of faith then Joseph was a man of honour. Even before an angel appeared to him in a dream he was planning to the the honourable thing by Mary. When many men would have shamed her and walked away he decided not to. We can only imagine the public ridicule

Did Mary Doubt?

Mary showed great faith as she accepted what God was wanting to do in her life. However, did she have her doubts? Was this why she went in “haste” to visit her cousin Elizabeth to check out if what the Angel had said was true? Did she stay there for three months to avoid those

The Faith of mary

Oh to have the faith of Mary. A faith that says I may be young, I may be scared, I may not understand, I may not know what God is doing or is going to do, but despite all of this I will trust Him. A faith that says I am God’s servant and whatever

You Will Never Walk Alone

You will never walk alone! You might feel that God doesn’t care, as the disciples may have as Jesus lay sleeping in the boat. You might feel that God is distant, as Joseph may have done as he languished in jail. You may believe God is dead, as Mary and the women did as they

Taking Christmas forward…

Taking Christmas forward into the New Year: Let us be obedient like Mary, trusting like Joseph, hospitable and accommodating like the Inn Keeper, eager like the Shepherds, watchful like the Wise Men and patient like Simeon. Let Jesus’ surroundings remind us to be humble. Let the gifts of the Wise Men remind us to be