Posts from December 2020

Posts from December 2020

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! May God bless you and your family in 2021. Here are a few thoughts as we head into a new year. Help those around you. Attend church, in person or online. Put your phone down. Pray every day. Yield to the Holy Spirit. Never give up. Experience life with the people God has put around you. Worship our Lord. Yell less and use kind words. Express love to those near and far. Ask for help when needed.…

Looking Forward

As 2020 draws to a close, we look forward to 2021.  The beginning of each new year can be a time to reflect on the previous year, on what has gone well and what needs some change.  January has many people setting goals and making resolutions.  Setting goals and making resolutions aren’t bad things, but I want to encourage you to seek the Lord’s will in all of the goals and resolutions you make for the upcoming year.  Proverbs 16:9…

Christmas Tips

I hope that your Christmas is wonderful.  May God richly bless each of you.  Here are a few tips I will pass along in my hopes that your holiday is great!  I love you each.  Make time to focus on Jesus during this holiday season. Experiences with people you love can be better than presents. Remember those who serve you daily behind the scenes and tell them thanks. Read the Christmas story from the Bible before opening presents. You should…

Better Together

“For I know the plans I have for you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 Merry Christmas! I hope you have a wonderful day celebrating the birth of Jesus. The new year is in sight. It’s almost time to flip that last page on the calendar. Before you say your goodbyes to 2020, I want to encourage you to look back on the past twelve months.…

Jesus Is For Everyone

Can you believe that Christmas is next week? There has been so much change and uncertainty this year, but Jesus has been here the whole time. Jesus is still the reason for the season. Jesus’ birth is still worthy of being celebrated and celebrated by all. We read in Luke 2:10-12, “In the same region, shepherds were staying out in the fields and keeping watch at night over their flock.  Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and…

Finish Strong

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7 2020 has been a one-of-a-kind year for sure.  As the year draws to a close, I want to encourage you to finish strong.  Let us not be found wishing away time that God has blessed us with and has plans for.  Think back to the start of this year.  Did you set any goals?  Did God reveal a “word of the…

What Is God Calling You To Do This Christmas?

This week’s lesson teaches our preschoolers about God sending the angel who told Mary and Joseph about the impending birth of Jesus. Boy did that news change their lives. Can you imagine hearing news like that? That news was life-changing, not just for Mary and Joseph, but for all of us. That baby born so long ago came to save the world.  This news was enough to cause fear in both Mary and Joseph. God was calling them to something…

Shine Jesus

In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:4-5 Jesus came as a light in the darkness.  He came as a fulfillment of God’s centuries old promise, after 400 silent years.  Yes, that’s right.  People had not heard from God for 400 years.  Those are the years between the Old Testament and the New Testament.  Yet, God’s people continued to wait…

Angel Tree Prison Fellowship

Our December Dollar Day will be partnering with Prison Fellowship Angel Tree to serve 13 families in Little Elm who have a parent incarcerated.  We are able to bless a total of 28 children this year.  This ministry connects families, as we will purchase and give the children Christmas gifts on behalf of their incarcerated parent.  An age-appropriate gospel booklet will be included for each child.  Each family is also able to get a free Adventure Bible!  This Dollar Day is…

Jesus Is Worth Celebrating

Most people love the holidays, especially children.  As parents, we try to point our children to the real reason we celebrate Christmas.  God loved us so much that He sent His one and only Son to come to earth and be born as a baby.  Jesus wasn’t any ordinary baby though.  Jesus was God in the flesh.  Jesus, the perfect Son of God, left heaven, coming to earth in order that He might bring us back to God.  Jesus is…

Keep Jesus The Center Of It All

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,” and “your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27 Just like that, Thanksgiving is over. The turkey has been eaten. The naps have been taken. The football games have been watched. Here we are already in December. Christmas will be here before you know it. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get frustrated with the commercialism of Christmas. Take me back…