DAILY READING Luke 1:26-38 REFLECTION   The Birth of Jesus Foretold By Jennifer Jerrome God knows the whole story – beginning, middle and end. Much of the Bible is Him trying to tell people, “Here’s what’s going to happen.” The word foretold  is used sixteen times in the NIV – eleven in the Old Testament because that’s where most of the “foretelling” takes place, the bulk coming from the prophet Isaiah. Isaiah 45:21 Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not...

DAILY READING Isaiah 44:6-8 REFLECTION   He's the ONE By Jennifer Jerrome From start to finish, beginning to end there is only… GOD I seriously thought about stopping here. What more is there to say? The idea of God as the ONLY one was proclaimed from the Old Testament to the New, especially in Isaiah and Revelation: Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord—with the first of them and with the last—I am he  (Isaiah 41:4). Listen to...

DAILY READING Hebrews 9:15-22 Romans 3:24-25 REFLECTION   Blood is Life By Jennifer Jerrome Reading today’s scriptures, my brain went in...