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I just thought i would share a devotional that I received this morning about Christmas Eve. A Candle in the Darkness Twenty Years Later December 24, 2009 As people across the world tonight light Christmas candles at Christmas Eve services, my mind goes back to another Christmas 20 years ago in Romania, when the country was still in the grip of communist tyranny. The story begins with Laszlo Tokes, pastor of a fast-growing reformed church in the city of Timisoara. His powerful preaching had caught the attention of communist offici

So 2 days and 8 hours until chirstmas. I love Christmas time. I love the songs ,the smell of the cookies in the oven, and the Christmas letters my family gets from friends. But most of all I love listening to the Christmas story on the morning of Christmas. Once everyone in my family wakes up, my dad reads the story out of the Bible. I hear the story of Jesus's birth every year but I learn something new every year and that's whats so cool about it. this year even before Christmas I learned some stuff. The big thing I learned was you cannot have the manger without the cross and vice versua. think about it: There would be no reason for us to celebrate Easter if Jesus wasn't born because there would no Christmas. And he was born knowing that he would die becasue he loved us so much. And so below I pasted the lyrics of one of my Christmas songs. When love came down by Point of Grace. So close your eyes and share the dream Let everyone on earth believe The Child was born, the st

So last night I spent time with some of the girls from my youth group and we had a girls night. We went over to my youth pastors and wife house. There they cooked a wonderful dinner of spaghetti and garlic bread and salad. Then after we ate we had to take some m&ms. The color of the m&m meant something. Brown meant most embarrassing moment which mine happened last night but more about that later, red meant funniest crush, green meant what you want to be when you grow up and yellow meant pet peeve. So everyone went around the table sharing depending on the colors they have. It was so much fun. Then the college age girls drew names for who was going to be on their team for the photo scavenger hunt. I was Emily 's team with Becka, Missy, and Sarah and Baby Peyton. Everyone got in their teams and drove to Northtown mall. So at the mall we had to go on a photo scavenger hunt ( perform different tasks and take a picture of the task) the tasks were singing Rudolph the red nose re

So I know i haven't written a lot but I have been super busy. I am super sorry. Today I was doing my devotional and then I looked outside and saw the snow. Part of me likes the snow because its super pretty, but then the other part of me doesn't because it makes driving hard. Anyways I was reminded of the verse Isaiah 1:18 Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. And this verse just reminds of God's forgiveness. Because Jesus was born on Christmas and then died on the cross we can ask God for forgiveness and he will make us white as snow. So I was thinking my heart is filled with dirt because of all the sin in my heart but then when I ask God for forgiveness my heart becomes white as snow.

So this past weekend I went to Planet Wisdom with my youth group. Its a conference led by Mark Matlock and Dawson Mcallister. The topic was the last 14 hours of Jesus's life.It was a really good topic to talk about. The big thing that stuck out to me was Jesus was human just like us and he didn't want to die, yet he loved us so much that he did. Mark 14: 36 -36"Abba,Father," he said, "everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will." This passage shows that he didn't want to but he knew we wouldn't be forgiven by God if he didn't so he died on the cross for us. Another important point was that Jesus dies of suffocation. Fluid filled up in his lungs and no air could get out and thats how he suffocated. Something I think we all have to ask ourselves is Jesus made his choice by dying for us and now we have to make ours.. Is Jesus worth living for? The chorus of a song by Dutton that has been stuck in my

I got this devotional a couple of weeks and it really stuck out to me. Let me know what you think. What can possibly keep anyone sane, stable, and even confident that things will eventually work out and get better through these kinds of trying times? I can only answer that for myself. I have been through these kinds of times. What kept me in a good place? The simple answer is “The Lord.” That isn’t answer enough for people that don’t know the Lord well enough for it to make sense. The longer answer is this: The world is full of evil but not of God’s doing. That is a full discussion or teaching in itself so for now, I’ll leave it there. The question might be, “Why doesn’t God do something about it?” The answer is, “He always is doing something about it. You just can’t always see that He is.” Because you are not God and cannot take in all the intricate details of the big picture of every human being’s life, you don’t have the capacity to grasp all that God is working behind the scenes. H