Day Nineteen: Giving Love Away
Advent Devotions 2017 Day Nineteen Love December 21, 2017 Giving Love Away 1 John 3:16-18 We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees...
Day Eighteen: Imitate the God of Love
Advent Devotions 2017 Day Eighteen Love December 20, 2017 Imitate the God of Love From the simple verse, “God is love,” that we learned as children, those of us in the church are reminded over and over again that God loves us: “I give you a new commandment, that you...
Day Seventeen: For God so Loved the World
Advent Devotions 2017 Day Seventeen Love December 19, 2017 For God so Loved the World Don’t you love the music of Christmas? I have CDs of mixed Christmas songs; yes, I’m that “Old School.” I look forward to listening to the same ones year after year. Thinking about...
Day Sixteen: Love is a Verb
Advent Devotions 2017 Day Sixteen Love December 18, 2017 Love is a Verb In Knoxville, Tennessee this summer, it came to me for the first time: the four Sundays of Advent flow in a logical, and to my way of thinking, a needed sequence. The youth camp Unidiversity where...