by Journey Community Church | Dec 24, 2017 | Advent |
Today’s word is “JESUS” which is a pretty important advent word. Like THE word right! Let’s look under the linguistic hood a little bit. Here’s the “syntactical note” from the NET Bible (New English Translation) on Matthew 1:21: The Greek form of the...
by Journey Community Church | Dec 23, 2017 | Advent |
Hope is hard. I happen to be in a season where it is hard to feel it, hard to hang on to it, and harder still to believe it can create any kind of change. I have just experienced a season of loss. From a loss of sleep brought about by a newborn baby, to a loss of...
by Journey Community Church | Dec 22, 2017 | Advent |
Years ago, I remember people telling me – “You should start journaling.” “Journaling is a spiritual exercise.” “Journaling helps you grow closer to God. ” Yet, I was always way too busy to write down a bunch of random ideas to myself in a notebook that would...
by Journey Community Church | Dec 21, 2017 | Advent |
When you think of peace what images or emotions come to mind? Are you standing on a cliff looking at a sunset? Or with your family on Christmas day? When I think of peace, I think of calm, stillness or quiet. But, what if God’s peace, this peace that surpasses all...
by Journey Community Church | Dec 20, 2017 | Advent |
Grace is a pretty warm and fuzzy word. Isn’t grace all about forgiveness? Doesn’t it mean that I am released from any obligation to earn my own salvation? Of course I am forever thankful for that aspect of grace. But is there more to grace than this? John 1:14 -16...
by Journey Community Church | Dec 19, 2017 | Advent |
I recently heard a message about the reality of the “Silent Night” in which baby Jesus arrived. The speaker mentioned that historically, it was more likely that Jesus arrived into an overly crowded, messy extended family with noise and people, not to mention...
