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Our scripture this week is Matthew 2:13-23. When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what …
Our scripture for Sunday is Matthew 2:13-23. When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” So …
Our scripture for this Sunday is Matthew 2:13-23. When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” …
Merry Christmas! May you know the love of God today and always, and may you share that love with everyone, everywhere, every day. Our Christmas scripture is Luke 2:8-20. And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and …
Our Christmas scripture is Luke 2:1-20. In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the …
Our scripture for Christmas is Luke 2:1-20. In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went up from …
Our scripture for this week is Matthew 1:18-25. This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet …
Our scripture this week is Matthew 1:18-25. A young couple starting out together has problems to deal with no matter what. Mary and Joseph had larger issues than any husband and wife before – being the earthly parents of the Messiah. The scriptures give us the details of their being told this, but not what …
Our scripture for this week is Matthew 1:18-25. When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.Matthew 1:24-25 Joseph and Mary …
Our scripture this week is Matthew 1:18-25 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).Matthew 1:22-23 God had been telling people all along what His plan was for …