Tag: Fruit of Spirit

For Mary and Elizabeth, Advent turns into awakening and brings with it all the hope and promise of something new.

What we experience as miracles are ultimately preludes to the full rising of light in Christ’s coming.

Isaiah helps move us from desperation to hope-filled delight, a sense that the night is coming to an end.

God is faithfully unfolding the completion of a promise, but it is not yet fully revealed.

The Bible firmly and repeatedly reminds us that the failure, brokenness, fear, and sin in us—not just in the world—will be gone too.

Darkness is relentless in its pursuit, but so is God.

We worship a God that enters in, connects, acts with compassion and commitment, and shares his image with us.

Our stories through darkness redeemed become flickers of hope for others stuck in the shadows.

That’s what’s so overwhelming about the light and love of God; it breaks in anyway.

The people of God were living in the pain of destruction and oppression, but Isaiah was calling them to take heart in a brightness that would still come.

The king of the universe humbled himself in lowly position, with such great love, to know and be known with us.

We miss the light, mostly because we’re distracted by darkness and doubt.