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Christmas Crossing Cultures Devotional

Worship Him

Christmas. Worship Him.

In the loud or silent.

Amid crowds or all alone.

At the table overflowing or simply breaking bread.

Surrounded by decorations and gifts, wrapping and ribbons. Or without all the fanfare.

In your home or at the church or elsewhere.

Worship Him.

Image by Aaron Burden on Unsplash.
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Christmas Devotional Memoir

Delay

Delay. Airport overflowing. Passengers waiting. Watching. Anxious. Resigned. Complaining. Shouting. 

Weary mom holds one child and corrals the others. Trying to get home before snow.

Couple returning from vacation. Using up all that relaxation in one day of flight cancellations. 

I sit beside a man from Newark. Started his day long before dawn. Now it’s late afternoon and his flight diverted from Pensacola to this small airport in Alabama. 

He’s trying to find another way to reach his destination. But rental cars are long gone. 

Delay. Image by Zichao Zhang on Unsplash.
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Devotional Making Disciples

Limited space

Gods of limited space. 

The enemy reasons, “Their gods are gods of the hill country. That’s why they were stronger than we were…. We should fight with them on the plain; and we will certainly be stronger than they” (1 Kings 20:23).

Contained areas. Hills or plains. Mountains or valleys. These are where gods rule. Or so they think.

But the Arameans soon find out. This God is different.

Not a God of limited space. Image by Tim Wildsmith on Unsplash.