Tag: Magi

• The Cross in Christmas

  Our Christmas season has taken us through incredibly busy weeks, school programs and parties, dance rehearsals and recitals, and church commitments. But, none of those scheduled appointments makes Christmas, well, Christmas. As we’ve worked through our annual Christmas Countdown using The Family Book of Advent, one devotion last week brought Christmas into perspective for me in…

  Jill Cobb

  December 23, 2015

  Christmas, Christmas Countdown

  Christmas, Christmas Countdown, Christmas star, cross, frankincense, God made flesh, gold, Magi, manger, myrrh, nativity, sacrifice, Wisemen

• Journey to the Manger: Wise Men and Herod

  Today, we went with the Wise Men to talk with King Herod on our Journey to the Manger. When the Wise Men arrived in Judea, they went to the epicenter of the Jewish religion: Jerusalem. There they had an encounter with King Herod, who apparently did not know the King of the Jews had been…

  Jill Cobb

  December 21, 2014

  Christmas, Christmas Countdown, Journey to the Manger

  Bethlehem, command, God, God’s Word, Jerusalem, Jesus, Journey to the Manger, King Herod, Magi, obedience, star, trust, Wisdom, Wise men