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Weekly Prayer – December 21, 2022

Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of December 21, 2022 Rev. Catherine Nance We are worried about the cold weather, O God. The empty shelves at grocery stores and the anxiety at gas pumps show that we anticipate the very worst. If we were honest – sometimes we are not completely honest with […]

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A Blip in the Screen

Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Wednesday, December 21 By Beth Cooper-Libby, Preschool Director A Blip in the Screen Read: Hebrews 6:10 NIV “God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.” It happens at […]

Cowboy Bob

Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Tuesday, December 20 By Dan Kelley Cowboy Bob Read: Genesis 45:7a “God sent me before you to preserve you.” My mom loved to tell the story about me when I was a small boy and my friend, Cowboy Bob. Mom had lost my older brother Timothy in childbirth […]

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My New Meditation App: The Gospel of Matthew

Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Monday, December 19 By Jane Gulley My New Meditation App: The Gospel of Matthew Read: Matthew 11:28-29 NKJV “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle […]

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Salvation at Christmas

Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Sunday, December 18, Fourth Sunday of Advent By Tim Best, Senior Associate Pastor Salvation at Christmas Read: Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 NIV “Restore us, O God; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.” (v.3) What does it mean to be saved? This seems like more […]

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Shining Under Bethlehem’s Star

Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Saturday, December 17 By Nancy Christmas Shining Under Bethlehem’s Star Read: Psalm 16:11 NKJV “You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” A few years ago before Christmas, our church members received a purple […]

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Giving and Getting

Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Friday, December 16 By Rev. Rick Isbell Giving and Getting Read: Acts 20:35 NIV “In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said:  ‘It is more blessed to give than […]

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Timeless Joy

Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Thursday, December 15 By Steve Richardson Timeless Joy Read: 2 Corinthians 4:4-18 “For it is God who said, ‘Light will shine out of darkness,’ who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.” (v.6) […]

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Weekly Prayer – December 14, 2022

Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family Week of December 14, 2022 Rev. Catherine Nance Oh, Lord! Time is running away from us!  Six more days until school is out …  Ten more days until Christmas Eve….  Seventeen more days until a new year begins!  You have gifted us with morning and evening, O God, […]

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Expectation, Excitation, Exhilaration

Daily Advent Devotions from Church Street UMC Wednesday, December 14 By Linda Henderson Cox Expectation, Excitation, Exhilaration Read: Luke 1:31-33 “You will … give birth to a son … He will be great …  His kingdom will have no end.” Unlike Zechariah’s unbelief when an angel told him he and Elizabeth would have a son, […]