desiring God … listening, waiting
Sunday, December 29, 2024 Fifth Day of Christmas Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) See what love God sets a father in honor over his children, and a mother’s authority he confirms over her sons. In his book of Chicago stories...
Saturday, December 28, 2024 Fourth Day of Christmas Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Unholy debt A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled, since they were no more. The Holy Innocents?...
Friday, December 27, 2024 Third Day of Christmas Feast of Saint John, Apostle and evangelist (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Three French hens We are writing this so that our joy may be complete. We played Christmas Jeopardy, and I buzzed in on the question, “How many piping pipers are...
Thursday, December 26, 2024 Second Day of Christmas Feast of Saint Stephen, first martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Stephen’s sacrifice On the SECOND day of Christmas my true love gave to me … Or, in our most recent universe, this is the day AFTER Christmas. Will this festival continue...
Posted on Dec 25, 2024
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 The Nativity of the Lord Christmas Day The First Day of Christmas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) We hear the bells of Christmas day Hark! The sentinels raise a cry, together they shout for joy for they see the Lord restoring Zion. Break out together in...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024 Christmas Eve (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Poetry from above Christmas scripture showers us with words as well as music: Mary’s Magnificat, Simeon’s Song, and today there is Zechariah’s priestly, historic, fatherly hymn of praise: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; for he...
Posted on Dec 23, 2024
Monday, December 23, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Chesterton at Christmas Thus says the Lord God: Lo, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me. And then suddenly there will come to the temple … yes, he is coming, but who will endure the day of...
Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 22, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Confidence Bethlehem-Ephrathah. Too small, but from you shall come forth. What is this confidence that small things so often possess? They are indomitable. They never give up. They win. They are alive in all the right ways. This...
Saturday of the Third Week of Advent, December 21, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Sabbath Hark! My lover! Here he comes springing across the mountains, leaping across the hills. The Seventh-Day Adventists have made Saturday their Sunday. For other reasons, members of this church live some of the longest...
Friday, December 20, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Bethlehem I will not ask! I will not tempt the Lord! King Ahaz of Judah is afraid of the surrounding nations, which have banded together to attack him. He will make a pact with them to save his skin. Isaiah demands...
