by Joanne | Dec 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
I went through my teenage years listening to Amy Grant and Kathy Troccoli music. It should not come as a surprise that one of my favorites Christmas songs is on Amy Grant’s Christmas CD. I have loved this song for years. Even at other times of the year, this song...
by Joanne | Dec 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
“Let every heart, prepare Him room.†I wonder how many times these words have been sung? How many times have they been written about? And yet I wonder … Have I truly prepared my heart? To ‘prepare’, according to dictionary.com is “to put in proper...
by Joanne | Nov 29, 2018 | Encouragement
It was somewhere early fall, I knew I needed to do an Advent study in order to prepare my heart to be prepared for this Advent season. My heart was feeling heavy, burdened, by the news and world events. There were four hundred years of silence prior to Jesus’...
by Joanne | Nov 27, 2018 | Book Reviews
Christmas. It’s a time of waiting and activity probably unmatched by any other time of year. Yet it is also a season of preparation. Advent. The time our hearts need to be prepared for Jesus. In her book, Exodus to Advent, author Esther Baird takes us back to...
by Joanne | Nov 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last week Hello Mornings began their Advent study, “It Could Only Be Jesus”. In His deep love for each of us, God made a way to relieve and free us from the Old Testament demands. He sent His Son – Jesus. Over the next several weeks, I’ll be...