Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge — even as the …
Monthly Archives: December 2023
Day 2 – Monday, December 4, 2023
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,you who lead Joseph like a flock.You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,stir up your mightand come to save us! Restore us, O God;let your face shine, that we may be saved! O LORD God of hosts,how long will you be angry with …
Day 1 – Sunday, December 3, 2023
Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,that the mountains might quake at your presence—as when fire kindles brushwoodand the fire causes water to boil—to make your name known to your adversaries,and that the nations might tremble at your presence!When you did awesome things that we did not look for,you came down, the …
Welcome – Advent 2023
Welcome to Hope College’s third annual Advent devotional! The theme for this year’s devotional is Come & Cheer, taken from a line in one of the best-known Advent hymns, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”: “O come, Thou Dayspring, come and cheerOur spirits by Thine advent here;Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,And death’s dark shadows put …