Love and Life | Advent 4 | Visual Lectionary Downloads for December 22, 2024

by Steve Thomason | Dec 16, 2024 | Bible

We come to the fourth and final week of Advent. This week we celebrate love and life. Two pregnant women meet and rejoice in the life that is growing in their wombs. Elizabeth’s child reminds us of the matriarch Sarah and her son Isaac, when God gave a child to a woman in her old age. Mary’s child reminds us that God can bring life out of nothing, through the Spirit, just like God did in the first verses of Genesis. Mary sings to God and reminds us that God’s love is for all people, bringing down the arrogant oppressors and uplifting the humbled and oppressed.

Light the fourth candle this week and rejoice in the love and life that comes from God.

Finding Joy in the Wilderness | Advent 3 | Visual Lectionary Downloads for December 15, 2024

by Steve Thomason | Dec 9, 2024 | Bible

Download visual resources to help you preach, teach, and study the Revised Common Lectionary and the Narrative Lectionary for December 15, 2024.

For the Revised Common Lectionary

Zephaniah 3:14-20
Isaiah 12:2-6
Philippians 4:4-7
Luke 3:7-18

For the Narrative Lectionary
Isaiah 61:1-11