It’s Christmas! Christmas is one of the best days of the year to express devotion, and yet devotion is so much easier on other days. Why is that? Perhaps habits are easier to perform on routine days, and Christmas is anything but routine. It’s a celebration. Depending on your household, it may be a noisyContinue reading “It’s Friday…He Always Comes Through”
Author Archives: Vic Alvarado
It’s Friday…Tell Him It’s His
It’s Christmas. The birth of Jesus is a familiar scene, isn’t it? We’ve seen and heard it practically every year in nativity plays, television specials, and our favorite Christmas carols. Wise men – we’re often told, but the Bible doesn’t say how many – came from a great distance to see the new King, andContinue reading “It’s Friday…Tell Him It’s His”
It’s Friday…And It Rocked Our World
It’s Christmas. God came in the flesh. Think of how amazing that is. A Son – a tiny little baby – will be called Everlasting Father. A child will be called Mighty God. On the surface, that’s absurd. Titles of deity and eternal fatherhood are reserved for God Himself, not for babies. “For to usContinue reading “It’s Friday…And It Rocked Our World”
It’s Friday…Greater Than We Imagined
It’s Christmas. God came in the flesh. Which means Jesus had a lineage. The Gospel of Matthew reveals it. His genealogy seems rather long and boring. And even though the lineage of Jesus is extremely special, it still isn’t the highlight of what we read in Scripture. Yes, we know He is traceable to Abraham,Continue reading “It’s Friday…Greater Than We Imagined”
It’s Friday…It’s A Simple Act
Many of us will have much to eat in the coming days. Nearly every time the Gospels mention Jesus eating, they mention that He gives thanks. That was the case when He fed multitudes with only a handful of food to start with, and that was the case at His Last Supper. Knowing He wasContinue reading “It’s Friday…It’s A Simple Act”
It’s Friday…It’s His Golden Opportunity
Strong warriors have been reduced to weak, desperate souls in the battlefield. There comes a time in every human fight when strength is exhausted. That applies to battle weary soldiers as well as to warriors of Christ. Whether the fight is over land or souls, it can be intense. When it is, human weakness showsContinue reading “It’s Friday…It’s His Golden Opportunity”
It’s Friday…Amazing Unlimited Grace!
How do you know God to be? Do you see Him and know Him as unlimited in wisdom, unlimited in power, and unlimited in love? You should because that is who He is. Yet, whenever we try to imagine the greatness of any of His attributes, we fall short. We just can’t picture it. WeContinue reading “It’s Friday…Amazing Unlimited Grace!”
It’s Friday…He Gave Us Eyes For His Glory
In Psalm 71 we read that the Psalmist was in a ‘pickle,’ a crisis really. He needs rescuing. We don’t know the exact ‘hiccup’ he was experiencing, and it really doesn’t matter. What we do know is how he responded. Though he has enemies who conspire against him, he knows where to find help. AndContinue reading “It’s Friday…He Gave Us Eyes For His Glory”
It’s Friday…He Even Has A Plan For That
How do you react when your circumstances are difficult? Do you try to maneuver your way out of them? Do you blame other people? Or worse, do you blame God? It’s a common response that nearly everyone has given in to. Even when we know that blaming Him is wrong and misguided, we still sometimesContinue reading “It’s Friday…He Even Has A Plan For That”
It’s Friday…Does This Look Like My Father?
A trap of the human conscience is to think that God wants us to be loving, gracious, generous, and all those other good things because He wants us to behave ourselves and get along with each other. That would, in fact, be a wonderful by-product of our spiritual maturity, but that isn’t the goal. No,Continue reading “It’s Friday…Does This Look Like My Father?”
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