Daily: God With Us

Joy To The World

December 23, 2021 • Pastor Marion Mason • Luke 2:10–11

Joy comes from Holy Spirit, abiding in God's presence, and from hope in His word.

Joy in the Waiting

December 22, 2021 • Jodi Otto • Luke 1:44

There is joy found in the waiting. His timing is good and perfect and we can trust the story He’s writing through us.

Joy in Difficult Messiness

December 21, 2021 • Joshua Coad • John 2:10

Our joy does not hinge on the ups and downs of day-to-day life. Some days are wonderful and some are unimaginably terrible. Rather, our joy is rooted in an expansive vision of reality, one in which God is not distant from us.

Jesus is Lord

December 20, 2021 • Pastor David Schmidgall • John 1:6–14

Jesus and His proclamation of the kingdom told us what we could prefer to life itself and it would work. The Scriptures end by telling us we are called to be people who would say, “Come, Lord Jesus”—who would welcome something more than business as usual and live in God’s big picture.

Steadfast Love

December 17, 2021 • Jill Carmichael • Psalm 25:6–10

Imagine what the church could do if we were not deterred by fear and anxiety and we truly understood what steadfast love meant.

Love - Lectio Divina

December 16, 2021 • Pastor Charles Williams • 1 John 3:16–18

Today we’re going to step into the practice of Lectio Divina, which simply means divine reading. So, we’ll read the passage, 1 John 3:16-18, four times, and each time I will invite you into a space of silence and reflection through a simple question or directive.

Love Without Condition

December 15, 2021 • Pastor Heidi Scanlon • Daniel 6:16–22

How does this kid in the Old Testament, under the inferior covenant, show his love to a king without condition and without an agenda? I honestly do not know, but I am challenged by this kind of unique and unconditional love.

Love Through the Weary

December 14, 2021 • Pastor Lyle Tard • Matthew 11:28

You can bring that weariness this Advent season because the King creator is into trading beauty for ashes, shame for significance, and pain for peace.

Wonders of His Love

December 13, 2021 • Pastor Heather Zempel • Psalm 17:7

God is with you. God is for you. Live today in the wonders of His love.

Partner With Hope

December 10, 2021 • Pastor Kiersten Telzerow

My prayer for us in this season is that we would learn to partner with Hope Himself. May the word hope have a whole new meaning to us. A new expression. A new experience. Hope has a name. Hope is with us.

Thrill of Hope

December 9, 2021 • Rachel Irmen • Hebrews 6:19–20

My prayer for us all as we observe Advent together and as we prepare to gather with friends and family this holiday season is that we experience and recognize the hope that is Jesus. Christ, who came to the earth in the most humble of forms, to live a life full of hope for His people. For me. For you. May our weary souls rejoice. For we have a thrill of hope; a hope that is just what we need when we need it. A hope that anchors the soul and brings a new and glorious morn.

Grieving With Hope

December 8, 2021 • Pastor Ryan Zempel • Psalm 42:5

Hope is expectant, forward-looking faith, and in such trying times, it can be hard to hold onto hope. That's why we need to surround ourselves with supportive community—other Christians who can point us to our hope in Christ when our hope dims, and for whom we can do the same.

The Candy Drawer

December 7, 2021 • Pastor Mandy Monson • Romans 5:3–5

God’s love is generous. My Grammy and Papa taught me so much about what it means to be a generous person. Their generosity throughout my childhood taught me what it meant to become a generous adult. They never ran out of love for us kids, and apparently, that meant the Candy Drawer never ran out of candy, even after Christmas, and even into adulthood.

Three Functions of Hope

December 6, 2021 • Pastor Lyle Tard • Luke 1:26–28

There are three functions that I want to encourage us in from our Scripture as we prepare ourselves for the message of hope throughout this week. Being a hope bringer, being a hope carrier, and a hope establisher.

The Gift of Pax

December 3, 2021 • Pastor Jenni Clayville • John 14:27

Biblical peace is more than just the absence of conflict. As a follower of Jesus, peace is an intentional action toward restoration in humanity’s brokenness. It’s not something we can just conjure up or manipulate, but in reality, it’s something that can only be achieved by practicing peacemaking (not to be confused with peacekeeping) in community.

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