Jesus
December 2025
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. John 14:6
Articles
Is He Your Savior?
Jesus, Our Savior, Our Lord
Is He Your Savior?
by Faith Reynolds
Jesus the Messiah
Jesus, Our Savior, Our Lord
Is He Your Savior?
by Hillary Rivers
Jesus, Our Savior, Our Lord
Jesus, Our Savior, Our Lord
Jesus, Our Savior, Our Lord
by Judy Sansom
Is He Your Savior?
Is He Your Savior?
By Faith Reynolds
Do you put your Christmas tree up before or after Thanksgiving? (after) Apple pie or pumpkin pie? (both) Is the Elf of the Shelf fun or creepy? (so fun!)
Questions can completely change the direction of a person’s life. Maybe not the questions above, but important ones. A well-timed question can shake us out of autopilot. We can literally go years doing what we’ve always done-until someone asks a question such as….
Where are you from? Hmmm I was born in Louisiana and have always been proud of my southern roots and my diet of black-eyed peas and cornbread, but I moved to California at a very young age and am also proud that I talk fast and can navigate L.A. traffic like a pro. So, who am I?
What do you want to be when you grow up? Obviously, a veterinarian, answered my animal loving heart, but I love animals too much to euthanize them, so maybe a teacher, no, a writer, no…I’m still trying to figure it out.
What are you interested in? History and science and literature and how to write literature and the back stories of famous people, and old school Hollywood, and spices and flavors, and different cultures, and politics and as Leonardo De Vinci once answered…everything!
Will you marry me? Floating over Napa Valley in a hot air balloon gazing into my boyfriend’s face, that was an easy answer. I could not image a day with out this wonderful man. A hundred times, and nineteen years later, still YES!
Are you ready to have this baby? No! From the first to the fourth, I’ve never been ready, but ready or not here they came! Joy unimaginable! Four C-sections, pain, exhaustion, responsibility, work, long nights and long talks, but joy.
Are you happy? That question’s too loaded. If it was asked yesterday, I might’ve cried. I’ve been close to burning out lately and living on the verge of tears, but today I’d say yes. I know I have all the reasons in the world to be happy, but sometimes I must focus on the good a little more intentionally. (Sometimes I have todeal with the perimenopause symptoms too!)
Is He your Savior? The biggest question of all and the most important. The “H” is capitalized because this question is asked about Jesus Christ, God the Son. What’s the answer? Well, my answer could be: I’ve grown up in church with my dad a pastor. I’m pretty good. I’ve been baptized. I read my Bible every single day and pray too! All good answers: all wrong.
I was asked this important question many years ago and did not have the right answer. I hoped Jesus was my Savior, but I was not 100% sure. Deciding that I no longer wanted to continue through life wondering, I went to the Bible and found the answer. It wasn’t by living a good life that I could know Jesus as my Savior, it was only by making a one-time decision to turn from my sin and ask Him to save me. Putting my faith in Him and Him alone to take me to Heaven one day. I remember making that decision and feeling such a weight lifted from my heart. I immediately wanted to tell other people the good news of Jesus and how He could be their Savior too. That’s why I’m telling you.
A man in the Bible asked a very important question, What must I do to be saved? The answer he was given changed his life, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. (Acts 16:30,31)
Is He your Savior? Ending the year with an affirmative answer can and will change your life!
Jesus the Messiah
Jesus the Messiah
By Hillary Rivers
We first read of the birth of Jesus in Isaiah 7:14 which prophesies of a virgin birth, but it was 700 years after the prophecy, that we meet a young virgin, Mary, living in the city of Galilee/Nazareth engaged to be married. God chose her to be the mother of Jesus the Messiah, a plan God had in place in the beginning and it was about to be fulfilled. In Luke 1:26-31 the angel, Gabriel, gives Mary the news that she would be the mother of Jesus the Messiah the Son of God. (Luke 1:35) She would bear the anointed one who would bring salvation to mankind.
As the world continued on oblivious to God’s plan, the angels rejoiced at Jesus’s birth, alerting the shepherds who came and worshipped the Messiah as well as the wise men that found Jesus and presented Him with their gifts. Mary and Joseph saw Jesus and knew of all that the angel had told them, but yet they could not see the two shadows that loomed over Jesus’s life: the shadow of the cross and the shadow of the tomb. Jesus the Messiah was sent by God the Father as that miraculous baby born to a virgin to hang on that cross and pay for the sins of every man, woman, and child that was and will be ever born.
The second shadow was the tomb where Jesus the Messiah was placed after He was crucified, but on the third day He arose from the dead, alive and victorious over death. God’s plan was completed for the redemption of man. What love God the Father has for us that He would send His Son to die for our sins that we might have eternal life.
As we celebrate the birth of our Messiah, may we look past the manger to the redemption God provided through Jesus’s death on the cross at Calvary, and His resurrection three days later from a tomb that could not hold Him. Let us celebrate His birth, acknowledge His death on the cross for our sins, and His resurrection from the dead. This is the only way we can spend eternity with Him. If you have never given your heart to Jesus, He is reaching out to you today, not just as Jesus who came to earth as a baby, but the Messiah who paid the price for our sins. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” Romans 10:9. Please receive this gift today!
We must understand that we have all sinned. Romans 3:23
We must realize that there is a penalty for our sin. Romans 6:23
We must recognize that Jesus died to pay our penalty. Romans 5:8
We must believe on Jesus and receive Him as our Savior. Romans 10:13
Let us celebrate the gift of Jesus the Messiah, Redeemer, Savior, and King!
Jesus - Our Savior - Our Lord
Jesus - Our Savior - Our Lord
By Judy Sansom
When I think back to Christmas as small child, the memories often come wrapped in soft lights and warm pajamas. The world felt different in December—brighter somehow, as if expectancy itself sparkled in the air. I waited for Christmas morning with a kind of hope that couldn’t be explained, only felt. Each ornament, each song, each wrapped gift whispered that something good was coming.
Even in a home that did not go to church or focus on Jesus, Christmas always felt different—somehow the whole world seemed full of hope and wonder and joy—and rightfully so. Long before our childhood memories, another Child entered the world—and His coming didn’t merely whisper hope; it proclaimed the Messiah has come.
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given... And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6).
Scripture tells us that when Jesus was born, the world had been waiting—not just for a moment of joy, but for a Savior. “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light” (Isaiah 9:2). The same longing we felt as children, that sense that something wonderful was drawing near, echoes the deep longing of creation for redemption—And on that night in Bethlehem, our Savior arrived not as a warrior or a king, but as a baby who cried, slept, and reached for His mother’s face just as we once did.
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1:14).
He entered our world not beyond our reach, but at eye level, in a form every person could approach without fear—A child. A gift. A Savior!
As children, the wonder we felt Christmas morning was real—but it was only a shadow of the true wonder found in Christ. The gifts under the tree thrilled us for a moment, but the Gift in the manger transforms us forever. He came to heal the broken, forgive the sinner, comfort the weary, and bring light into places we thought were too dark to brighten.
“I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10).
Because He stepped into our world, we can face every tomorrow with confidence. The same Jesus who entered the world in humility now reigns in glory, and the same Jesus who slept in a manger now offers rest to our souls.
“Come to me all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matt 11:28-29).
So, this Christmas season, let your heart remember the wonder of childhood—but let it lead you to something deeper. Let it lead you to the Savior who still steps into our world, who still brings joy where there is sorrow, and who still changes lives the moment we open our hearts to Him.
This Christmas season, may we remember to set our eyes on the majesty of Jesus—our Savior, and may we remember to honor Him with our obedience for He is Lord.
”The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father. I also will love him and will reveal myself to him” (John 14:21).
Prayer:
Lord Jesus—my Lord & Savior, thank You for coming near to us—not in majesty, but in humility. Help us recapture the wonder of Christmas, not just through the memories of childhood, but through the truth of who You are. This Christmas, reveal anything within me that keeps me from You. Give me the grace to repent—to turn away from sin and toward Your love and truth. Wash me clean, renew my heart, and let Your light shine through me. Renew my hope in You, the One who changed the world by entering it. Amen.
Daily Reading
Daily Reading
DECEMBER
12/01 Isaiah 7:14
12/02 Isaiah 9:6
12/03 Luke 1:26- 33
12/04 Matthew 1:18- 25
12/05 Luke 2:7- 14
12/06 Luke 2:42- 49
12/07 Matthew 4:18- 25
12/08 St. John 4:25- 30
12/09 Matthew 26:1- 5
12/10 St. John 14:6- II
12/11 St. John 8:12
12/12 St. John 14:23- 29
12/13 St. John 15:12, 13
12/14 Luke 18:31- 33
12/15 St. John 10:17, 18
12/16 St. John 18:2- 9
12/17 Mark 15:17- 20
12/18 St. John 19:25- 27
12/19 Luke 23:36- 43
12/20 St. John 19:29- 36
12/21 Matthew 28:1- 8
12/22 Luke 24:36- 43
12/23 St. John 20:24- 31
12/24 Philippians 2:5- II
12/25 St. John 3:16- 18
12/26 Ephesians 2:8, 9
12/27 Acts 4:12
12/28 Romans 10:9, 10
12/29 2 Corinthians 5:17
12/30 I John 5:11- 13
12/31 I Thessalonians 4:16- 18