Day 9

Read It: Acts 2:2  Live It: For most people living in Jerusalem 2000 years ago, it probably started out like a normal day. But there were 120 followers of Jesus, both Jew and Gentile, waiting in an upper room for the promise of the Holy Spirit. As they waited and...

Day 8

Read It: 1 Corinthians 13 Live It:  We use a lot of words to describe love. But love is not simple. In fact, many times it’s anything but simple. Today, we are going to read about a specific type of love – selfless love. Today’s scripture is very popular in wedding...

Day 7

Read It: Edmund H Sears – “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” –  Matt 5:17 Live It: History reads that Edmund Sears wrote this hymn from a period of personal melancholy. In 1849 there were news headlines of war, sin, and strife, but even through the fog of...

Day 6

Read It: Noël Regney- “Do You Hear What I Hear?” – Luke 2: 8-14 Live It:  The song “Do You Hear What I Hear?” by Noël Regney captures an absolute beauty of events told to us in Luke chapter 2: 8-14. The Angel of the Lord delivers the good news to the shepherds...

Day 5

Read It: Matt Redmon -”10,000 Reasons”  – Psalm 103:1-2 Live It: As is true with each of the classic songs we have looked at this week, these songs begin to take on a life of their own. Instead of looking at the story behind this song, we are going to look at...

Day 4

Read It: Carl Boberg- “How Great Thou Art” Psalm 8 & Psalm 104 Live It: In 1886, a Swedish minister named Carl Boberg was watching a storm on the coastline. The visuals of this storm moving over the coastline inspired a poem that began with the words, “O Store...