by jo | Dec 15, 2015 | Advent, Everyday Stories
I remember being in college, and learning that one of my old junior high students from the youth group I helped with had had his mother die. On Christmas day. Their dad was already out of the picture and life was already hard. For a story I wrote earlier this year...
by jo | Dec 1, 2015 | Advent
“Name ten people you met this week,” he said to us. We were sitting in a dining room in South Africa. We’d just come back from a couple weeks in Malawi, Africa, and we were debriefing in Johannesburg before returning home. They’d sent us...
by jo | Dec 13, 2011 | Advent
TUESDAY DAILY PSALM God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD amid the sounding of trumpets. Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises. Psalm 47:5-6 CONNECTION JOY PROJECTS Are you ready to show the joy of Christ to your community?...
by jo | Dec 13, 2011 | Advent
MONDAY DAILY PSALM We have heard with ours ears, O God; our fathers have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago. With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers; you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish. It was not by their...
by jo | Dec 11, 2011 | Advent
SUNDAY ADVENT SEASON WEEK THREE THE POWER OF A VOICE A Devotional Reflection on John 1:6-8, 19-28 A few years ago, I received this incredible opportunity to go on what they were calling a “cultural immersion trip” to Malawi, Africa — the fourth poorest country...
by jo | Dec 10, 2011 | Advent
SATURDAY DAILY PSALM Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. Psalm 43:3 CONNECTION REFLECT ON THE WEEK TOGETHER1 Where did you see God at work this week? What did you learn about...