Simply Celebrate with Great Joy!

The Joy of the Lord is our strength!  We need to simply celebrate this season because Jesus has come!  He came, He lived and He died for you and I!  What a glorious gift!  What an exciting hope!  We have been rescued from darkness and can now live in the marvelous light!  We do not have to live in condemnation!  We can seek healing and forgiveness from the penalty of sin!  We can have an intimate relationship with the God of this universe!  Rejoice with Exceeding JOY - He has come!  Our Savior has come!  Our home is not this world!

 

Is it amazing to you that Jesus came as a lowly babe in a manger?  Isn't it just like our God to send the first announcement of the birth of the Savior of the world to shepherds?  The lowly of the world, with the greatest news ever!  Besides the shepherds a host of angels show up to make the announcement !  Can you even imagine?  

  

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Announcing!!!!!

 

Diane Nix

We are sooo excited to let you know that Lisa McKay (a.k.a. The Preacher's Wife) will be joining us here at Contagious Joy as we endeavor to just help you out in the journey of being a PW.  She will be sharing her writings with us from time to time and well, we don't know how all of this will flesh out but I'm so excited about this I could just stand up and shout - WOOHOO - PRAISE THE LORD!  I deeply respect and admire this woman of God and just can't believe that she would want to hook up with us! 

 

Lisa will still maintain her blog and site and nothing will change except that she will be pointing you to visit us here at ContagiousJoy  - in a safe, secure environment!  Click on the link below and Lisa (as only she can) explains better than I ever could.......So glad you are joining my crazy world - my friend!

 

 

SBC International Mission Board

 

Along with our devotional we will be giving away a little Flip Book (pictured below).  It's a 25 day challenge to help us stay focused.  My good friend  - Rachel Lovingood put this together for a conference that she is doing entitled "Lighten up"  You can order them from her for $5.00

Rachel writes:

Imagine what could happen if:

-our Christmas season really is all about Jesus and not about impressing others or running ourselves ragged like culture says we should.

-we choose to invite some people over(maybe lost people) and share some favorite Christmas memories together.

-our encounters with others in stores, schools, work or wherever are all about bringing light into the dark of this world (Matt 5:16)

LOVE IT!