Today is the Twelfth Day of Christmas.  It is also Twelfth Night, the night before Epiphany.  According to Wikipedia:
Twelfth Night or Epiphany Eve is a festival in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany, concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas, and is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as “the evening [...]

Week Four: Love: Day Five
We’re finally there!  The day we’ve been waiting for has finally arrived!  It’s Christmas Day!  Our Savior and our king is here!  The One we’ve been waiting for is here!  Rejoice!  We have Hope and Peace with God!  Rejoice, in His love!  Make a joyful shout to the LORD, all you [...]

Week Four: Love: Day Four
I really like this song.  It’s solemn but beautiful.  I think it’s very appropriate for this Christmas Eve.  And as it’s about night and this is Christmas Eve, I decided to wait until evening to post it.  This song reminds us that while we are waiting for Christmas and it’s almost [...]

Week Four: Love: Day Three
We’re almost there.  Christmas is almost here.  This has always been a favorite of mine, perhaps because it’s in a minor key, and I love songs in minor keys.
Luke 2:11-12
For there is born to you this day in the City of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.  And this [...]

Week Four: Love: Day Two
This is traditionally a children’s carol and a sweet one.  It seems real fitting to include it here during the last few days before Christmas.
Luke 2:7
And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them [...]

Today is the fourth and last Sunday of Advent.  Christmas is almost upon us.  For four weeks we have waited for this day.  We started out with Hope.  We started out remembering our sins and our need for a Savior and the prophecies to the People of God telling them that God would send them [...]

Week Three: Joy: Day Seven
As we leave this week and enter the last and final week of Advent, our feelings of joy at Jesus’ birth turn to worship of Him, the promised one.
Matthew 2:11a
And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshipped [...]