Scripture Verses Matthew 1:18-25 Read the context around these key verses when possible! Reflections Joseph had already made a plan. He was going to do what seemed best to him. He was going to put Mary away quietly. After all, a noble man would not want to be mixed up in someone else’s disgrace. A…
Scripture Verses Luke 1:32 Read the context around these key verses when possible! Reflections Jesus isn’t just a good man and teacher, He is God the Son! How did Christ, being God the Son, become man? “Christ who is God the Son became man by being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit with…
Scripture Verses Isaiah 7:14 Luke 1:26-38 Read the context around these key verses when possible! Reflections The prophets foretold that God would do the impossible. A young girl, never given to a man in marriage, would actually have a baby boy. This baby would be unlike every other baby because this baby wouldn’t have a…
Scripture Verses Isaiah 11:1-5 Revelation 5:5 Read the context around these key verses when possible! Reflections After the days of King David, the prophets told the Israelites of destruction that would come to them. It would be devastating. Life would seem cut-off, like a tree that had been chopped down leaving only a stump. No…
Scripture Verses Micah 5:2 Matthew 2:1-6 Read the context around these key verses when possible! Reflections Have you ever felt too little? Too little to stay up late with the older kids? Too little to ride the exciting rides? Too little to…. Bethlehem was too little. Too little to be as important or significant as…
Scripture Verses Ruth Isaiah 59:20 Luke 1:68-79 Read the context around these key verses when possible! Reflections Ruth was a Moabite (from the land of Moab) and a widow. She followed her mother-in-law, Naomi, back to Naomi’s people (the Israelites). Ruth was a foreigner, and she didn’t have anyone to take care of her. She…
Scripture Verses Genesis 49:10 Isaiah 9:7 Luke 1:33 Read the context around these key verses when possible! Reflections Abraham’s son Isaac had a son Jacob, whose name God changed to Israel. Jacob had twelve sons who became the tribes of Israel. Judah was one of the twelve sons. At the end of Jacob’s life when…
Scripture Verses Genesis 22:1-18 John 3:16 Hebrews 11:17-19 Read the context around these key verses when possible! Reflections We enjoy giving gifts this time of year. Gifts can be in many forms. They can be in the form of presents wrapped under a tree – a treasure carefully selected and packaged with care to be…
Scripture Verses Genesis 12:1–3 Acts 3:24-26 Read the context around these key verses when possible! Reflections God called Abram to go to a land He would show him, and God gave him the promise of blessing. Not a blessing for possessions, but a blessing for people. Abram would become Abraham and have a son. That…
Scripture Verses Genesis 3:15 Matthew 1:21 Read the context around these key verses when possible! Reflections God created the world, and everything in it was very good. When the first man and woman believed the lie of the snake instead of believing God, sin entered into the world – and death through sin. The entire…