Sunday review: December 6-11

This is the season for celebrating good news, and this week’s posts reflect God’s best news. Which of them could be the greatest encouragement to you—or to someone who’d be helped by reading along with you? Send them a link, or give them the reproducible version available via the link provided at the bottom of each post.

December 6
Come up with 22 of your own examples of what God has done for you and your loved ones in the past. I’m sure if we put some effort into it we could think of one a day for a month. In fact, if we worked at it I think we might remember one new thing to be thankful for each day for a year.
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December 7
Even as we grieve and go through trials of various kinds including our difficult seasons of goodbyes, we can be assured that this grief and these sufferings are now for just a little while. And all of this hope is because we believe in a resurrected Jesus we have not yet seen but know exists and is with us who are exiled now. But the miracle of faith also means that Jesus is fully with every one of our family members and friends who departed this place as believers in Jesus.
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December 8
God has a unique job for each of us to do. Each of us has “for such a time as this” moments. I suspect we should be always praying we see them and obey.
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December 9
According to Peter and before him Isaiah, we can either trip over Jesus or build our lives on him. As we each build our lives upon the living stone of Jesus, we become a spiritual framework that God uses in expanding his kingdom. The key to this ever-expanding and eternally focused house is that all of us miraculously have access to the same cornerstone and foundation. In fact, if we don’t use Jesus as the cornerstone of our life, then we have no way of participating in his kingdom expansion now or in the future. Only a life built on the foundation of Jesus can withstand the troubles and attacks that come in this world. And only a life with Jesus as the cornerstone will be a part of a glorious and eternal future.
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December 10
David knew what we know as well. There is one who is always there when we call. Psalm 138: 3 expressed it this way: “On the day I called, you answered me; my strength of soul you increased.”
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December 11
This is our challenge at Christmastime, to step away from the demands of our lives and to tremble afresh at good news, the best news, the news that matters most. To somehow find a way to embrace the fact of God with us as if we’d never heard the news before. And then, like the shepherds, to share our wonder with someone else who also needs to be changed by what God has done.
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