Christmas Priorities: When God Upends Your Plans

What happens when all your plans for the day are upended by unforeseen events? Do you look for how God might be diverting you toward His plan for the day?

Encroaching Light (Part 5)

When the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, “Let us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us. So they came in a hurry and found their way to Mary and Joseph, and the […]

Behind the Facade of Disbelief

God’s presence is evident even when it seems you are surrounded by disbelief and resistance to Him.

Witnessing Without a Word

He knew there was something different about the young man. Every task he gave him was done with integrity. It seemed all he touched was successful. This man was different from all his other servants. Now his master saw that the LORD was with him and how the LORD caused all that he did to […]

Christmas Plans—Part 2

What do you do when you’re faced with an unexpected change in plans? Will you abandon your plans and follow God’s lead? See how Joseph handled the unexpected.

Worried in a City of Fear

Son, why have You treated us this way? Behold, Your father and I have been anxiously looking for You.” And He said to them, “Why is it that you were looking for Me? Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?” – Luke 2:47 (NASB) It had been years since […]

God in the Ordinary — Mary and Joseph

Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the descendants of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. (Luke 1:26-27, NASB).” Mary and Joseph; two ordinary people given an extraordinary purpose — […]

A Battle of Wills

Joseph modeled for us what obedience to God looks like in practice.