Tag: Wisemen

• 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: King Herod

  Today we learned about King Herod on our Journey to the Manger. King Herod was a mean man. Desperate to keep his power, Herod constantly looked to place himself ahead of others, with whatever means necessary. When wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem looking to worship the King of the Jews, Herod tried […]

  Jill Cobb

  December 11, 2014

  Christmas, Christmas Countdown, Journey to the Manger

  Christmas, give and take, giving, God, Journey to the Manger, King Herod, selfish, Wisemen