Happy New Year! Today, from Isaiah 9:5-7, we reflect on the hope of the eternal peace that Jesus promises to us. 

From Matthew 2 and Micah 5, we reflect on the promise of Jesus being our ruler and shepherd. 

From Matthew 2:1-6, we reflect on how the details of Jesus’ birth, and the details of our lives, are in God’s hands. 

From Matthew 2:1-6, we reflect on how the journey and worship of the magi are a foretaste of God’s will to bring all nations to Jesus.

From Isaiah 7:14, we reflect on the promise of Emmanuel and how this means that God has come and, added to this, that He remains with us. 

From Isaiah 7:14, we reflect on the promise of Emmanuel, and what this ‘sign’ points to. 

From Genesis 3:15, we reflect on the spiritual war that we are engaged in - a war that will be won because God has come to us in Christ. 

God’s church is loved by God, hated by Satan, so will we join with God in resisting the evil one by loving and building His Church?