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Advent Devotional: December 12, 2019
Obedience Consider: First, Mary and Zechariah were shocked at the appearance of an angel of the Lord and then they engaged in a conversation based on their own understanding of the news brought to them. After they were both reassured, they continue to respond the same...
Advent Devotional: December 11, 2019
Engaging God in Conversation Consider: After the initial shock and awe of God sending an angel to speak on His behalf, Mary and Zechariah responded again almost identically. Zechariah Read Luke 1:18. What was Zechariah’s verbal response to the angel of...
Advent Devotional: December 10, 2019
Welcoming God with Reverence Consider: God hosted the very first Christmas! He sent out the invitation and proved the perfect, unconventional host. As we consider asking God to host our season, we should take notes on the first people He invited into the story...
Advent Devotional: December 9, 2019
Sit for a minute on this day during the holiday season to embrace your relationship with God.
Praying for the Man In Your Life: Video Devotional Series
You stand in a powerful position regarding your husband's success. You engage in a relationship with him "for better or worse" seeing him through both the ecstatic and the broken places and a whole lot of in-between. Regardless of how long you've been with him or how...
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
“Christmas is a great celebration of God entering humanity, but a woman who invites Him into her every day is the woman who understands Immanuel.”
Worn Out Shoes and Blurry Vision
By Lana Shoaf published in First Mennonite’s “Update” in June 2019 “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably...
Quarters and Zoo Passes
By Lana Shoaf published in First Mennonite’s “Update” in May 2019 “Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do...
God Grows the Seed
By Lana Shoaf printed in First Mennonite Church's "Update," April 2019 “He also said, ‘This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.”...