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Date: 12/1/2020
Entry: #6
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: An Advent Study Paperback
“O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: An Advent Study explores Jesus’ work on our behalf in the message of Christmas. This study will not only fuel our worship of Jesus, but help the reader foster steadfast love anchored in biblical truth now and all year long. Readers will more fully understand the anticipation and waiting that the Old Testament world endured, the light and life Jesus came to bring us, and the eternal promise that Jesus is yet ushering us into.
This beautiful resource will also include advent activities to help kids, students, and adults celebrate the Christmas season together. This Christmas season, set your focus on the anticipation and joy that only Christ can bring in this study of Advent.
Features:
Leader helps for group discussion
4 weeks of personal study to be completed between the 5 group sessions
Beautiful 4-color interior to enhance the reader’s experience
Specific Advent activities for kids, students, and adults
Benefits:
Allow a deeper understanding of Advent to fuel your worship of Christ.
Understand deeper theological truths of Christmas.
Learn more about Jesus and how His coming brings us hope, light, wisdom, and gospel unity.”
Scripture:
Genesis 3:1-7
The Fall
In this Emanuel Bible Study, we are asked this Question:
“Have you ever paused to consider what a mercy it is that God still invites us into his presence, even though we are sinners?”
God loves us unconditionally.
We do not have to clean ourselves up to follow Jesus, he will get into our messy lives and work with us on his timing. He will help us clean up our mess. He is really the only one who can do it the right way imo. A change of the heart definitely outlasts a changing of the mind from my personal experience.
The fact that God loves us so much that he maintains an invitation to us to be with him for eternity shows us that even in our broken state he loves us. That his love for us is forever. He wants to have a relationship with us just as he did with Adam and Eve in the Garden. He didnt have to spend time with them in the Garden, but he made time for them. Even after they went against his orders, and ate from the tree of good and evil, he could have killed them ont he spot, but he didn't. He loved them enough to show them mercy. If you every catch yourself not feeling close to God , just remember that he has an open door policy. You don't have to be dressed fancy, talk fancy, or attend a bible college to be close to God. God created humans before an of that existed. His intent is to have a genuine relationship with us. If he meant to abandon us, he would never have sent Jesus to be born and later die for all of our sins. The death of Jesus on the cross , paying our sin debt, was a huge invitation.
John 3:16
New International Version
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Things I am doing to fight the gloomy cold weather approaching while living in the shut down life.
Moving furniture and decorations around.
Changing what we see everyday can help refresh a boring vibe while we are locked away in our homes for various reasons.
Because I do not have a fireplace, I find beautiful fireplaces on Youtube to play on my flat screen TV’s . You can have them with music or without music. You can just have them crackle and pop. It definitely sets a cozy warm vibe.
I put Christmas lights up early. I have wrapped lamp poles, draped over tvs, woven them through garland. It really adds that extra special oomph to a dreary day. It may be gloomy outside , but i'm making it cheery inside.
I watch what kind of content I consume on a regular basis, but as this cold wintery season approaches us, I make a bigger effort to watch happy shows. Shows that make me laugh or feel happy inside.
I create things. I feel that when we create things we feel so much better about our self and our life. It is easy to get in a slump. It is easy to just wake up and flip on the TV and turn your brain off. I say, dont do it.
I bullet journal, play video games, podcast, Do plastic canvas, and Im just starting to paint scrap would we had laying around after some house renovating.
Dust off some of your old hobbies or research some new ones. Try some new recipes.Research a new topic about something you knew nothing about . Either way, tapping into your creative side can help you expand your knowledge base as well as possibly expand your social circles if you are feeling blah in that department.
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