Isaiah 7:1414 All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us’)Isaiah 9:2, 6-72 The people who walk in darkness will see a great light. For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine. 6 For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The governme...  Read More

I don’t know what you were taught growing up, but in my household, Christmas was a magical time filled with all kinds of wonder.As soon as Thanksgiving was over and the Christmas decorations started coming out, my heart began to beat faster, wild with anticipation. I believed in all the stories I was told about Christmas - Santa Claus and the elves at the North Pole, Frosty the Snowman, and yes, e...  Read More

INTRODUCTIONThe following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with, or your Connect Group.  Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Holy Spirit to lead in all things.OPENING QUESTION(S)When you were a child, what stories or fairytales did you believe to be absolutely true?  HEADRead 2 Kings 5:1-27 tog...  Read More

Final ThoughtsThis month, we have been wanting you to realize that there is more to this world that what we see everyday. God has been working in the background, and sometimes the foreground throughout our whole lives and through the history of the world.In today’s reality it seems that we are stuck with the choices that come to us politically, with the ideologies that we encounter from culture, a...  Read More

2 Kings 520 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said to himself, “My master should not have let this Aramean get away without accepting any of his gifts. As surely as the Lord lives, I will chase after him and get something from him.” 21 So Gehazi set off after Naaman.When Naaman saw Gehazi running after him, he climbed down from his chariot and went to meet him. “Is everything all ...  Read More

2 Kings 513 But his officers tried to reason with him and said, “Sir, if the prophet had told you to do something very difficult, wouldn’t you have done it? So you should certainly obey him when he says simply, ‘Go and wash and be cured!’” 14 So Naaman went down to the Jordan River and dipped himself seven times, as the man of God had instructed him. And his skin became as healthy as the skin of a...  Read More