November 3rd, 2011 
alandanielson Support missions while helping your family focus on Jesus this Christmas season! Christmas Reboot is a devotional eBook by Alan Danielson that helps your family see the holiday anew. Reawaken Christmas with 25 devotional readings and engaging activities that will will help your family experience Jesus in a meaningful way. Each devotional is rooted [...]
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5 Comments » December 24th, 2009 alandanielson The Christmas account recorded in Matthew is full of reminders that God is faithful. In Matthew 1:20 an angel tells Joseph not to divorce Mary. In Matthew 2:12 the Magi were warned not to return to Herod. In Matthew 2:13 the angel warns Joseph to flee with Mary and the new baby to Egypt. Then [...]
Posted in Character, Leadership, Special, Spiritual Growth Tags: birth, Christ, christmas, faithfulness, God, God's, Jesus, Matthew, of, providence, trusting, will No Comments » December 22nd, 2009 alandanielson In Matthew 1:18-25 we find the story of Joseph being faced with the problem of what seemed to be an unfaithful fiancée. The love of his life, sweet little Mary, had slept with someone and been knocked up! Like us, he probably wondered how this could happen…how could it happen to him? Then, just [...]
December 21st, 2009 alandanielson The 4 gospel accounts of Jesus’ birth explore different angles of the incarnation story. During this time of year we hear he accounts with such frequency that we sometimes have a tendency to mix them up. Proof of this is in manger scenes prominently displayed in our homes. Seeing wise men and shepherds [...]
Posted in Spiritual Growth Tags: christmas, Faith, faithfulness, gospel, gospels, Matthew, men, nativity, set, story, wise, wisemen No Comments » December 16th, 2009 alandanielson Each of the four Gospels has a slightly different telling of the Christmas story, but did you know that Paul also told the Christmas story in Romans? The following passage from Romans 8 is not traditionally thought of as a “Christmas passage”, but the Message translation certainly opens our eyes to a new way [...]
December 16th, 2009 alandanielson One of my favorite Christmas movies is Superman Returns. I know, you’re thinking, “That’s not a Christmas movie, Alan”. To me it’s a great Christmas movie because of all the messianic symbolism in the story. It parallels the incarnation story very well. So rent it, dust off the copy you have on your shelf or [...]
December 15th, 2009 alandanielson During the Christmas season I sit down with my 3 boys every evening to talk about the meaning of the holiday. Last night we talked about the word “incarnation”. According to Dictionary.com The Incarnation is “the doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is [...]
Posted in Special, Spiritual Growth Tags: anti, anti-religion, antireligion, Christ, christmas, deity, God, good, holiness, holy, humanity, incarnation, is, relevance, religion 2 Comments » December 7th, 2009 alandanielson It’s amazing how one second can change a person’s life. Friday a friend from my small group, Kent Collins, and I were getting ready to hang Christmas lights for RealChurch.tv in Oklahoma City. We arrived and climbed up on the roof to assess the job. We talked about what a breeze the job was going [...]
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