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Scripture: Psalm 30:5 (4) Sing praise to Adonai, you faithful of his;
and give thanks on recalling his holiness.
6 (5) For his anger is momentary,
but his favor lasts a lifetime.
Tears may linger for the night,
but with dawn come cries of joy.
Jeremiah 31:12 (13) “Then the virgin will dance for joy,
young men and old men together;
for I will turn their mourning into joy,
comfort and gladden them after their sorrow.
13 (14) I will give the cohanim their fill of rich food,
and my people will be satisfied with my bounty,” says Adonai.
Habakkuk 3:17 For even if the fig tree doesn’t blossom,
and no fruit is on the vines,
even if the olive tree fails to produce,
and the fields yield no food at all,
even if the sheep vanish from the sheep pen,
and there are no cows in the stalls;
18 still, I will rejoice in Adonai,
I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
19 Elohim Adonai is my strength!
He makes me swift and sure-footed as a deer
and enables me to stride over my high places.
For the leader. With my stringed instruments.
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Prayer Tip:
I serve as the Funeral Program Director at Resurrection. It is my privilege to help families plan funerals and memorial services for their loved ones. Though I can’t take away the pain of a loss, I can do a little something to make coordinating a service to celebrate their loved one’s life just a bit easier. So far this year, those in our church family have lost 397 loved ones, and our pastors have been involved in 133 funerals/memorial services.
While so many of us are looking forward to the Christmas season with joy, at least 397 families will celebrate their first Christmas while missing someone special. I’m thinking of some who have passed who were in their nineties, who had lived a good, long life but left behind a spouse of more than seventy years. I’m thinking of those who have lost a loved one to suicide. I’m thinking of parents who lost infants, school-age children, and adult children. I’m thinking of those who are grateful their mother/father/sister/brother/spouse is no longer fighting battles against cancer/diabetes/MS, but who are in deep mourning because, even though that person may be whole and healed with Jesus, they are no longer here.
As Pastor Adam often reminds us, “The worst thing is never the last thing.” We believe this because as Christians we have hope in resurrection after death. But a loss is still a loss. As we begin this Advent season, let us remember in our prayers those who are grieving.
Lord God,
We know you are with us always and you understand our emotions. For those who are grieving the loss of a loved one, give them your peace, comfort, strength, and love. Help the rest of us to support them, and use us as instruments of reassurance of your presence. As we look forward to celebrating the birth of the Savior of the world, remind us that we, too, can help bring your joy to earth.
Amen. (Angela LaVallie Tinsley, Funeral and Prayer Program Director)
Read today's Insight by Angela LaVallie TinsleyAngela serves as the Funeral and Prayer Program Director, overseeing on-site funerals and assisting with prayer classes, vigils, walk, retreats, and other events. She began working at Resurrection in April 2007 and in that time has worked with the Singles, Seniors, Young Adults, and Guest Connections ministries.
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"A God who changes mourning into joy"
Monday, 4 December 2017
Psalm 30:1 (0) A psalm. A song for the dedication of the house. By David:
2 (1) I will exalt you, Adonai, because you drew me up;
you didn’t let my enemies rejoice over me.
3 (2) Adonai my God, I cried out to you,
and you provided healing for me.
4 (3) Adonai, you lifted me up from Sh’ol;
you kept me alive when I was sinking into a pit.
5 (4) Sing praise to Adonai, you faithful of his;
and give thanks on recalling his holiness.
6 (5) For his anger is momentary,
but his favor lasts a lifetime.
Tears may linger for the night,
but with dawn come cries of joy., 11 (10) Hear me, Adonai, and show me your favor!
Adonai, be my helper!”
12 (11) You turned my mourning into dancing!
You removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
13 (12) so that my well-being can praise you and not be silent;
Adonai my God, I will thank you forever!
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Psalm 30 reflected a time of severe trouble, one that threatened life itself (verse 3). “The psalmist may have been healed from a life-threatening illness, but the language could be metaphorical.” * Whatever the specific circumstances, the psalmist’s focus was on how God had driven away the threat and restored joy to life. Most individuals, as well as Israel as a nation, could remember times when mourning had turned to joy.
• Scholar Donald Williams wrote, "In [the psalmist’s] illness there has been weeping, the sense of God's absence, and mourning. Now…the healing of God has turned sorrow into joy." ** Is it possible for difficult times to make God feel absent even for people of faith?
(Don’t forget Jesus quoting Psalm 22:1 on the cross.) We sometimes use the phrase “God showed up” to describe times of recovery and restoration. Whether we mean that literally or metaphorically, how does that contribute to joy at those times?
• This psalm fits into larger contexts as well. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said in a sermon titled “A Knock at Midnight,” “I read these words: ‘The United States Supreme Court today unanimously ruled bus segregation unconstitutional in Montgomery, Alabama’…. The dawn will come…. ’Weeping may endure for a night,’ says the Psalmist, ‘but joy cometh in the morning.’ This faith adjourns the assemblies of hopelessness and brings new light into the dark chambers of pessimism.” *** Can you think of times when “dawn” has come in the world’s history? What are one or two areas of life in which you look forward to God bringing a joyous morning to our world in the future?
Prayer: Lord, when I face hard times where "weeping may stay all night," I thank you that the worst thing is never the last thing, that in the end you always have and always will turn sorrow into joy. Amen.
* J. Clinton McCann, study note on Psalm 30:2 in The CEB Study Bible. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2013, p. 870 OT.
** Donald Williams, The Preacher’s Commentary Series, Volume 13: Psalms 1–72. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1986, p. 239.
*** A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by James M. Washington. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1986, p. 504.
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Chris AbelChris Abel is the Young Adults Pastor at Resurrection, and he describes himself as a "Pastor/Creative-type/Adventurer." A former atheist turned passionate follower of Christ, he completed his seminary education in Washington, DC. Before coming to Resurrection, Chris was a campus pastor near St. Louis, MO.
You changed my mourning into dancing.
You took off my funeral clothes
and dressed me up in joy
so that my whole being
might sing praises to you and never stop.
Lord, my God, I will give thanks to you forever. (Psalm 30:11-12)
I flew to Chicago recently with a friend who was being checked into a rehabilitation center. I met the family early in the morning at the Kansas City airport and watched the parents cry as they gave their grown child a hug goodbye. There was a lot of pain there—but only because there was a lot of love there, too.
On the plane, my friend and I talked about mental health—about the way our brains sometimes work against us. We talked about fear and defense mechanisms. And as we reached 10,000 feet, they turned to me and said, “my biggest problem is isolation.”
Curious, I asked them to explain.
“It’s a defense mechanism. When you open yourself up to people, you can be hurt. So when my brain pulls me into a shell and away from people, it’s a ‘flight or fight’ thing. And I’m fleeing.” They continued, “If I don’t get close to people, they can’t hurt me.” We talked on and off for the next hour, but this stayed with me. See, we all have logic like this:
- If you don’t have a life goal, you can’t fail at it.
- If you don’t even try that healthy habit, you can’t fall out of it.
- If you don’t try learning new things, you can’t feel dumb when you’re not initially good at it.
- If you don’t talk to that family member, then you don’t have to fight with them.
- If you don’t let yourself feel joy, you won’t have to feel pain, either.
We isolate to protect ourselves from pain. And all it costs is our joy.
This is the most daring thing about today’s psalm. The poet dares to feel joy:
In the face of enemies.
In the face of sickness.
In the face of death.
In the face of sin.
Joy.
Joy is so hard because there is always something that can hurt us. There is always something that could dampen that feeling. But thousands of years before “coping mechanism” was ever a phrase, wise men and women taught about joy in the face of pain and loss.
Why?
Because there is always pain. You simply cannot avoid it. Wisdom is not avoiding pain… but finding joy in the midst of it. Poet Jack Gilbert puts it this way:
“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world.
To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”
(The rest of the poem is jarringly beautiful. Read it here.)
Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
are not starving someplace, they are starving
somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.
But we enjoy our lives because that's what God wants.
Otherwise the mornings before summer dawn would not
be made so fine. The Bengal tiger would not
be fashioned so miraculously well. The poor women
at the fountain are laughing together between
the suffering they have known and the awfulness
in their future, smiling and laughing while somebody
in the village is very sick. There is laughter
every day in the terrible streets of Calcutta,
and the women laugh in the cages of Bombay.
If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction,
we lessen the importance of their deprivation.
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
If the locomotive of the Lord runs us down,
we should give thanks that the end had magnitude.
We must admit there will be music despite everything.
We stand at the prow again of a small ship
anchored late at night in the tiny port
looking over to the sleeping island: the waterfront
is three shuttered cafés and one naked light burning.
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat
comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth
all the years of sorrow that are to come.
(Jack Gilbert)
Your pain isn’t the whole story. And it’s not all-consuming.
It may sting, (or take your breath away it hurts so badly) but you are alive and God is still shining His face on you.
We must risk delight. It might be easier to choose the numbness, but you were made to feel it all—joy, pain, love, loss. It’s all part of the beauty of life.
You could choose to avoid it all.
But don’t. You’ll thank yourself later.
(And read that poem).
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"Choosing to rejoice even in hard times"
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Habakkuk 3:17 For even if the fig tree doesn’t blossom,
and no fruit is on the vines,
even if the olive tree fails to produce,
and the fields yield no food at all,
even if the sheep vanish from the sheep pen,
and there are no cows in the stalls;
18 still, I will rejoice in Adonai,
I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
19 Elohim Adonai is my strength!
He makes me swift and sure-footed as a deer
and enables me to stride over my high places.
For the leader. With my stringed instruments.
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The prophet Habakkuk lived just before Babylon’s armies invaded Judah, leveled Jerusalem and destroyed Solomon’s beautiful Temple. There was much corruption and evil in Judah. When Habakkuk asked God to do something about it, he said God’s reply was “I am about to
rouse the Chaldeans [Babylonians]” (Habakkuk 1:6). The prophet wrestled with despair. But in today’s passage, he resolved that, no matter how bad things got, he would “rejoice in the God of my deliverance.”
• At the end of his short book, Habakkuk pictured utter disaster in an agricultural land. No figs, no grapes, no olives, no crops, no sheep or cattle—it’s hard to imagine how things could get much worse. Did “I will rejoice in the Lord” mean the prophet would say, “Oh, boy—it’s great that we have no food”? What might “rejoice in the Lord” mean when life is difficult?
• Thích Nhất Hạnh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist, said, “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” How does his statement relate to the kind of determined faith commitment the Hebrew prophet wrote down some 2500 years ago? How can joy be
something you choose, not something that just happens?
Prayer: Lord Jesus, even the “first world problems” we sometimes talk about can feel bad and discouraging to me. Teach me how to trust in you as deeply as your puzzled but faithful servant Habakkuk. Amen.
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Brandon GregoryBrandon Gregory is a volunteer for the worship and missions teams at Church of the Resurrection. He helps lead worship at Vibe, West and Downtown services, and is involved with the Malawi missions team at home.Habakkuk is a fairly obscure book of the Bible that introduces a fairly central idea to our faith: The just shall live by his (or her) faith (Habakkuk 2:4). This is not an empty request from this prophet. He opens his book talking about the rise of the Chaldeans, better known today as the Babylonians, and how God will use them to punish Israel for their iniquities. It’s unknown exactly when this book was written, but it’s thought to be right after the Babylonians captured Jerusalem in 598 BCE.
You have to remember, the ancient Israelites had a long history of captivity. They lived as slaves for Egypt for over 200 years. The Assyrians had conquered Israel over 100 years before the Babylonians started their conquest, and they were actually still an Assyrian state when the Babylonians invaded.
Habakkuk openly discusses with God his frustration of falling under foreign rule again, just as things seemed to be settling down into some semblance of normalcy under the Assyrians. But Habakkuk eventually learns that he has to live by faith even when it doesn’t make sense, even when it doesn’t seem to be doing him any good. That’s the context of his psalm at the end of his short book. So when he says, “I will rejoice in the God of my deliverance,” in 3:18, it’s not an easy thing to say. It’s not something that makes sense as he’s on the verge of entering into captivity again. But he resolves to give thanks to God anyway because he has faith that even though things look awful now, God will eventually deliver his people.
We talk a lot about what gratitude can do for us, but we can’t forget what it means. Giving thanks and having faith go hand in hand—having faith allows us to give thanks for things we haven’t received yet, but know will come. Giving thanks in tough times is an act of faith and trust in God to deliver us, just as he did the Israelite nation throughout history. It’s not easy. Sometimes it doesn’t even make sense. But it’s a vital step and important discipline in moving from a faith of perplexity and doubt to a solid belief that God will come through for us.
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"In God’s world, even the worst doesn’t last forever"
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Jeremiah 31:9 (10) Nations, hear the word of Adonai!
Proclaim it in the coastlands far away. Say:
“He who scattered Isra’el is gathering him,
guarding him like a shepherd his flock.”
10 (11) For Adonai has ransomed Ya‘akov,
redeemed him from hands too strong for him.
11 (12) They will come and sing on the heights of Tziyon,
streaming to the goodness of Adonai,
to the grain, the wine, the olive oil,
and the young of the flock and the herd.
They themselves will be like a well-watered garden,
never to languish again.
12 (13) “Then the virgin will dance for joy,
young men and old men together;
for I will turn their mourning into joy,
comfort and gladden them after their sorrow.
13 (14) I will give the cohanim their fill of rich food,
and my people will be satisfied with my bounty,” says Adonai.
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Jeremiah’s prophetic commission was a painfully lonely one. Much of the time, he pled with the citizens of Jerusalem not to throw away their lives by fighting the invading Babylonian troops (cf. Jeremiah 21:8-9, for example). But in today’s reading, he looked ahead and spoke of hope and joy. The day would come (not right away, but it would come) when Israel’s exile would end. And, like the glow of dawn on the horizon, Jeremiah’s words hinted at the day when God
would turn all “mourning into laughter and sadness into joy.”
• Jeremiah 31 began with the words “at that time.” Scholar Andrew Dearman wrote, “‘That time’ is a reference to a decisive time of divine activity and the resulting changes…. How far into the future is not specified by such references; the emphasis is on the qualitative changes between the present grim circumstances and the future God has promised.” * Jeremiah’s message said neither Israel’s exile, nor the world’s brokenness, would last forever. How easy or hard do you find it to trust that God’s great story ends in joy, not in sorrow?
• The verse 12 promise that “they will grieve no more” fit well with the words of Isaiah 25:8: “The LORD God will wipe tears from every face.” What events or situations have brought the most grief into your life? How meaningful to you is the promise that God will ultimately heal your grief, that you will grieve no more?
Prayer: Lord God, thank you for the prophetic promise that your story (and therefore mine as your child) ends in joy. I eagerly look forward to that wonderful day. Amen.
* J. Andrew Dearman, The NIV Application Commentary: Jeremiah, Lamentations. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002, p. 283.
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Wendy ConnellyWendy Connelly is wife to Mark, mom to two kids and a seminary student at Saint Paul School of Theology. She teaches classes at Resurrection Downtown and hosts an interfaith podcast, which you can subscribe to at TheLiftPodcast.org.
As I sat in church this Sunday listening to the message of “Finding Joy in the Darkness,” tears filled my eyes. Our family’s Christmas card read, “Joy to the World!” but this joy we proclaimed felt elusive. We had just learned days before that our five-month-old kitten, Mystic, had a rare virus and only days to live. We consulted research journals and animal experts, but all hope was lost.
When Monday came, the air hung heavy, and Mystic suffered. We pulled the kids from school and went together to the vet’s office, giving Mystic endless snuggles and love. We anointed her body with fragrant oil, recited a blessing, read scriptures and sang a song from Les Miserables as she faded out of this life:
Mystic we bless your name;
Mystic lay down your burdens;
You filled our lives with love;
Now you will be with God.
Tears streamed down our faces as we placed our sweet kitten into the cold earth, huddled together and holding each other’s grief. Our hearts felt hollow, the faith we proclaimed through gritted teeth was riddled in doubt, but there was a tragic beauty in these moments that washed over us in waves of gentle comfort. And in this comfort, we clung to hope. We chose “joy-notwithstanding.”
Over the previous weeks, the kids and I had fittingly memorized a quote by William Shakespeare:
“Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”
Could something good emerge from this tragedy? A deeper love among us? A hard-won compassion for others? Whatever ugly and venomous toad you carry in your pocket, could God also make of it a jewel of virtue, a resurrection crown?
Our mourning is still thick and heavy, our sadness overwhelming. But we cling to hope that, for our Mystic, all is well… and that in our lives, too, all manner of things shall be made well, our sadness will turn to joy-notwithstanding, and we will laugh again.
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Thursday, 7 December 2017
Psalm 126:1 (0) A song of ascents:
(1) When Adonai restored Tziyon’s fortunes,
we thought we were dreaming.
2 Our mouths were full of laughter,
and our tongues shouted for joy.
Among the nations it was said,
“Adonai has done great things for them!”
3 Adonai did do great things with us;
and we are overjoyed.
4 Return our people from exile, Adonai,
as streams fill vadis in the Negev.
5 Those who sow in tears
will reap with cries of joy.
6 He who goes out weeping
as he carries his sack of seed
will come home with cries of joy
as he carries his sheaves of grain.
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Israel’s long history included incredibly low times of misery at the hands of tyrants (notably slavery in Egypt—cf. Exodus 1:8-11, and exile in Babylon—cf. 2 Kings 24:13-14, 25:11). But it also included God’s action to deliver them in the Exodus and in the return from exile. Psalm 126 poetically recalled the joy they felt when God lifted them up from their lowly status, and prayed trustingly that God would again allow them to live in the joy of divine deliverance.
• The first half of this psalm was a journey in memory. The Israelites never forgot the Exodus from Egypt—their “defining story”—nor their jubilation when God set them free from exile. “Yes, the Lord has done great things for us,” the psalmist affirmed. God lifting them up from captivity was a permanent part of their history. What do you remember as a time when God did “great things” in your life? How do you keep that memory alive?
• The second half of the psalm became a prayer that the same God who did great things in the past would do them again. It used harvest language, picturing the ideal conditions for agricultural people. Are there parts of your life in which you want to ask God (perhaps a
more urban version of) “Let those who plant with tears reap the harvest with joyful shouts”?
Prayer: Lord God, thank you for the times—like Jesus’ first coming—when you did great things for your people. Help me to live in the confidence that, sooner or later, you always act to lift us up and bring us joy. Amen.
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"The day when 'all the trees of the field will clap their hands'”
Friday, 8 December 2017
Isaiah 55:6 Seek Adonai while he is available,
call on him while he is still nearby.
7 Let the wicked person abandon his way
and the evil person his thoughts;
let him return to Adonai,
and he will have mercy on him;
let him return to our God,
for he will freely forgive.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not my ways,” says Adonai.
9 “As high as the sky is above the earth
are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For just as rain and snow fall from the sky
and do not return there, but water the earth,
causing it to bud and produce,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth —
it will not return to me unfulfilled;
but it will accomplish what I intend,
and cause to succeed what I sent it to do.”
12 Yes, you will go out with joy,
you will be led forth in peace.
As you come, the mountains and hills
will burst out into song,
and all the trees in the countryside
will clap their hands.
13 Cypresses will grow in place of thorns,
myrtles will grow instead of briars.
This will bring fame to Adonai
as an eternal, imperishable sign.
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Two chapters earlier, Isaiah 52:13-53:12 declared that the person God called “my servant” would conquer evil, not by brute force, but by taking all of evil’s worst upon himself, absorbing and destroying its power to lastingly hurt others. Chapter 55 built on that, telling readers that God’s superbly merciful acts are very different from our usual human patterns. As we choose to respond to God’s mercy, we join in a cosmic celebration full of peace, joy and song.
• How does Isaiah’s description of the gap between God’s mercy and our usual human ways of relating speak to your heart? Sometimes when we read Isaiah’s words, or Jesus’ teaching about loving enemies, we might think, “Sounds nice—but it would never work.” Are you convinced that God’s ways are indeed higher than ours? Do you believe God’s way is the only path to ultimate peace and good, or just hopelessly naïve idealism?
• In verses 12 and 13, “while much more than deliverance from physical captivity is being talked about, that imagery would communicate most immediately in the circumstances of the Exile. All nature will rejoice in the redemption of humanity (cf. 42:10; 44:23; 49:13), and in place of sorrow and sighing there will be ‘joy’ and ‘peace’ (cf. 35:10; 51:11) as the captives return to their God.” How did the prophet’s vision of God’s sweeping redemption and restoration of the human family create a solid foundation for living with joy?
Prayer: Lord, did your servants 500 years before Christ read these words and think, “Just how will that work?” I know more about the story of Jesus, but it still contains a lot of wonder and mystery. Thank you for the story and the promise of your saving work for me. Amen.
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“When I go…I will return”
Saturday, 9 December 2017
John 14:1 “Don’t let yourselves be disturbed. Trust in God and trust in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many places to live. If there weren’t, I would have told you; because I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 Since I am going and preparing a place for you, I will return to take you with me; so that where I am, you may be also., Acts 1:10 As they were staring into the sky after him, suddenly they saw two men dressed in white standing next to them. 11 The men said, “You Galileans! Why are you standing, staring into space? This Yeshua, who has been taken away from you into heaven, will come back to you in just the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
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In John 13:33, Jesus told the disciples, “I’m with you for a little while longer.” Peter almost immediately asked, “Lord, where are you going?” To what was probably a circle of worried faces, Jesus said, “Don’t be troubled…I will return.” Jesus’ talk of going away puzzled his disciples. But he promised that he would return, and that when he did his followers could always be with him. He gave them a vivid picture of God’s house as a spacious place with plenty of room for everyone.
• At times we tend to ‘sell’ people on heaven by listing benefits—golden streets, no death, mansions. (Actually, “my Father's house has room to spare” conveys the same message that “many mansions” did in the 1611 English of the King James Version.) What one specific feature of the future life did Jesus mention in verse 3? How appealing do you find the promise of being with Jesus? Have you faced and dealt with your fear of death and what comes next? Jesus came to “set free those who were held in slavery their entire lives
by their fear of death” (Hebrews 2:15). In what ways can your model of finding greater freedom from that pervasive human fear help others you care about overcome their fears?
Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank you for your message that “the best is yet to come.” Help me to live in trust, hope and joy as I follow you all the way to your Father’s spacious house. Amen.
Family Activity: Mary and Joseph were full of joy at the birth of Jesus. Then the angel joyfully told the shepherds that Jesus had been born and the shepherds joyfully told others! How can you joyfully tell others about the birthday of Jesus? First, create a list of people with whom you want to share the good news of Jesus. Consider neighbors, community workers, store clerks, family and friends. Next, discuss fun and creative ways you could share the exciting news of Jesus’ birth and His love. You might bake treats, design cards, create a simple craft or write a simple note. Deliver your items to people. Let each person know you are praying for him or her during this Christmas season and throughout the year. Share the joy of Jesus with everyone!
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Prayer Requests – cor.org/prayer
Prayers for Peace & Comfort for:
•Family and friends of Mark Griffith on his death, 11/24
•Dick Radford and family on the death of his wife Dorothy Radford, 11/21
•Tim Ehinger and family on the death of his aunt Helen Lucille Harding, 11/19
•Susan Peters and family on the death of her grandmother Maxine L. Towne, 11/17
•Glenda Bishop and family on the death of her husband Eddie E. Bishop, Sr., 11/2
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