Joy (29)
  1. To be happy is to be the object of God’s love in Christ and to love God and others with the love of Christ.
  2. As you step into the days ahead, remember this: no matter how lost you may feel, you have a God who seeks you out, celebrates your return, and rejoices over you.
  3. Belief at Christmas is neither neat nor safe. It is the path that leads to the manger and, from there, to the cross.
  4. Jesus rests in a manger in the days to come, but don’t be fooled.
  5. This is an excerpt from “Encouragement for Motherhood, Devotional Writings on the Work of Christ” edited by Katie Koplin (1517 Publishing, 2024) available for purchase today.
  6. The joy of which Lewis speaks is a deep yearning of the soul not unlike the nostalgia we feel upon seeing a favorite childhood object once again.
  7. How can he say it? How can he say that Christ is after all the entire meaning of life for him, and that death is no real worry?
  8. Psalm 98, with its promise of a sea and mountains singing, takes these imposing natural features and turns them into a praise choir.
  9. The church’s song goes on and on, singing and ringing down to us today.
  10. In Advent we wait, in Christmas we rejoice over the coming of Christ in the fulfillment of the promises, and in Epiphany we celebrate the surprise, the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles.
  11. The giver of life, the source of joy, stands weeping together with the human family as they grieve under the curse of sin.
  12. Though envy whispers to us that peace can only be found by “keeping up,” Jesus whispers to us a better word: “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.”
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