When the time had come for Jesus to be presented in the temple we meet two people,Simeon and Anna. Simeon was a righteous and devout man. He was waiting on the consolation of Israel, or the Messiah and the Bible says that the Holy Spirit was upon Him. It had been revealed to Him that…

I read through Luke 2:8-14 tonight and the angel appearing to the shepherds that were attending their sheep in the fields. You know, I’ve always kinda pondered on why God would choose to tell shepherds first about the birth of The Savior… As I read a little bit about shepherds in that day, I learned…

Mary and Joseph made the trip back to Bethlehem (Luke 2-1-4) because he (Joseph) was out of the house and lineage of David for the census. I was doing a little reading earlier today and learned that Bethlehem in Hebrew means “House of Bread”. How cool that Jesus would later call Himself “The Bread of…

I went back to Luke again today and pondered on the words of verse 80 about John: “And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.” I just kept asking myself, “Why would he stay in the wilderness?” God had…

I picked back up in Luke this morning reading about the birth of John the Baptist. If you can remember the story, Zechariah and Elizabeth were “old as dirt” and an angel appeared to Zechariah and told him that he would have a son. Now, Zechariah was pretty skeptical and because of that…he was unable…

I went back this morning and looked at where Mary was praising the Lord and seen where she is quoting to Hannah’s prayer in 1 Samuel. If you remember, Hanna prayed for a child. She was barren and was ridiculed because she could not conceive. After many tears (crying so much that Eli the priest…