Category Archives: joy
Shining Forever and Ever
“The wise people will shine like the brightness of the sky. Those who teach others to live right will shine like stars forever and ever.” Daniel 12:3, NCV “So our faces are not covered. They show the bright glory of the Lord, as the Lord’s Spirit makes us more and more like our glorious Lord.” [...]
Does Sickness Bless You?
The Sick Child, Edward Munch, 1885-1886 “A man was lying there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.” John 5:5 That was a long time to be sick. It is very hard to be an invalid year after year. This day’s reading may come to some who have been thus afflicted, and we may [...]
Some Christmas Advice
Christmas is my most favorite time of the year. I was raised in the northern part of Wisconsin, and my most valuable and tenderest memories are my Christmases. I was raised in a Norwegian Lutheran church (Lutefisk!) and many memories flow from that. The cold, the snow and the tree and the presents. I have been made a [...]
A Rose in the Snow
Merry Christmas, dear ones! I can only hope, and also pray that Jesus will direct and keep you in His care. I’m looking to a Christmas a thousand years from today, when He will bring us all together. I think that we’ll all kick back, and we will try to remember Christmas, 2011. We will [...]
Yule Time Humor
This is a very eclectic gathering of Christmas humor. These cartoons really shouldn’t offend. But if they do I ask for your forgiveness and forebearance. More then anything else, have a jolly Christmas full of light and faith. With much jocularity and with a Christmas love, Related articles The Virtual Yule Log [...]
Let’s Get Loud!
“Today your Savior was born in the town of David. He is Christ, the Lord.12 This is how you will know him: You will find a baby wrapped in pieces of cloth and lying in a feeding box.” 13 Then a very large group of angels from heaven joined the first angel, praising God and [...]
Joy is Not Optional
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world. –Henry Ward Beecher The last ten days have been quite difficult. I have lived in a separated state with the Lord and that is not anything that I can tolerate or endure. I have gone into this period of [...]
Shield Your Joyous Ones
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake or weep tonight, and give your angels and saints charge over those who slumber. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Christ, Rest your weary ones, Bless your dying ones, Soothe your suffering ones, Pity your afflicted ones, Shield your joyous ones, And all for your love’s sake. Amen. [...]
I Love the House! Psalm 84:1-4
1 How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 2 I long, yes, I faint with longing to enter the courts of the Lord. With my whole being, body and soul, I will shout joyfully to the living God. 3 Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow builds her nest [...]