Daily Devotional

Hey Advent Family, “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.” Then the righteous will answer him and say, “Lord, when...

Hey Advent Family, “Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in e. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit,...

Hey Advent Family, “There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; three are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. To each individual the manifestation of...

Hey Advent Family, “What is your opinion? A man had two sons. He came to the first and said, ‘Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.” He said in reply, ‘I will not,’ but afterwards he changed his mind and went. The man came to the other son and gave the same...

Hey Advent Family, “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like the landowner who went out early one morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2He agreed to pay the normal daily wage and sent them out to work. 3“At nine o’clock in the morning he was passing through the...

Hey Advent Family, "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.” - Philippians 4:13 There it was, scrawled in giant black letters across my gym’s wall: “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me”. After jogging a few miles on the treadmill, staring...

Hey Advent Family, "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." - Hebrews 11:1 Since joining Advent, people have often asked me what my hopes are for the church. To be honest, this is a more difficult question than you may...

Hey Advent Family, “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand”. - Isaiah 41:10 “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and...

The Sabbath of Celebration “This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.” — Psalm 118:24, NLT When was the last time you actually stopped and celebrated something? God built celebration into the life of His people. Israel had seasons for...

Hey Advent Family, “Jesus turned to Peter and said, ‘Get away from me, Satan! You are a dangerous trap to me. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God’s.’” — Matthew 16:23, NLT Have you ever been faithful to God and still found yourself...

Hey Advent Family, “It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to the Most High. It is good to proclaim your unfailing love in the morning, your faithfulness in the evening.” — Psalm 92:1-2, NLT I have been reading The Five Stones by one of our former...

Hey Advent Family, “In fact, some parts of the body that seem weakest and least important are actually the most necessary. And the parts we regard as less honorable are those we clothe with the greatest care. So we carefully protect those parts that should not be...

Hey Advent Family, There he goes again. We were at a nice restaurant and had just received our meal. I could tell the waiter was trying to get everything just right. My father-in-law holds to a strict ritual that we do not eat until we have prayed. This time we were...

Hey Advent Family, I had a situation take place a number of years ago when I was stuck in the snow in the backwoods of the upper Grand Canyon National Park. Unfortunately, someone left the light on in the van and the battery was dead. We were in the middle of nowhere....