Advent Devotions

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AdventDevotionsPreparing for a Season ofHope, Peace, Joy and for a Season ofHope, Peace,Joy and LovePREPARING FOR A SEASON OF HOPE, PEACE, JOY AND LOVEI absolutely love this season of the year. I love the decorations and the traditions, but most of all I love to sing the carols and tell the Christmas story to my is the most wonderful time of the year. Not because of the decorations, traditions or even the songs, but because it is a time when we remember Immanuel, God with one of the first verses we memorized as children was John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. This is indeed good news!

Words like “always” and “ever” are not void of eternal meaning in Scripture. Like the word “hope,” they aren’t cheap words nor words that come cheaply to us. Eternal hope comes to us at great cost, not to us, but to the One the Scriptures refer to as “the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). Jesus secured eternal hope for

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