Tag: Advent
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What do the 12 Days of Christmas represent? The Christian symbols linked to the song, from turtle doves to golden rings, and the days leading to Epiphany.
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A Christmas Eve devotional on Jesus, our Savior God: the boy in His Father’s house in Luke 2:49, the mission He came for, and how to receive salvation.
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What does the Christmas story teach us about God? An Advent recap: He can be trusted, uses ordinary, humble people, plans far ahead, and always wins.
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What did Isaiah prophesy about Jesus? The prophecies Jesus fulfilled, from the virgin and Immanuel in Isaiah 7:14 to the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53.
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Why is John the Baptist in the Christmas story? Meet Jesus’ cousin, the voice in the wilderness Isaiah foretold, whose birth begins Luke’s account.
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How did the Wise Men know to follow the star? This Advent devotional points to Daniel in Babylon and explains the meaning of their gold, incense and myrrh.
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Why did Joseph take Mary and Jesus to Egypt? In Matthew 2:13-23 an angel warns of Herod, Joseph obeys that night, and three prophecies are fulfilled.
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What can we learn from the Wise Men? An Advent devotional on Matthew 2:1-12 and the four responses of true worship they model: seek, obey, bow and give.
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King Herod, the villain of the Christmas story: who he was, why he ordered the boys of Bethlehem killed in Matthew 2:16, and why he was no match for God.
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Who was Anna the prophetess in Luke 2:36-38? An 84-year-old widow who prayed at the temple for decades, then spoke of Jesus to all awaiting redemption.
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Who was Simeon in the Bible? The devout man promised he would see the Messiah before he died, who then held baby Jesus in the temple (Luke 2:22-35).
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Luke, the doctor of details: why the Christmas story we know comes from the physician’s careful account, the one Linus quotes in A Charlie Brown Christmas.