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[learn_more caption=”December 1: John 1:6-8″]
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 2: John 1:9-10″]
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 3: John 1:11-13″]
11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 4: John 1:14″]
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 5: Matt 1:18-19″]
18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 6: Matt 1:20-21″]
20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 7: Matt 1:22-23″]
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 8: Matt 1:24-25″]
24 When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. 25 But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 9: Matt 2:10-11″]
10 When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. 11 On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 10: Matt 2:13″]
13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 11: Matt 2:19-20″]
19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20 and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 12: Matt 2:21-23″]
21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, 23 and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 13: Luke 1:26-27″]
26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 14: Luke 1:28-29″]
28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 15: Luke 1:30-33″]
30 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 16: Luke 1:34″]
34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 17: Luke 1:35-37″]
35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. 37 For no word from God will ever fail.”
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 18: Luke 1:38″]
38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 19: Luke 2:1-3″]
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 20: Luke 2:4-7″]
4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 21: Luke 2:8-12″]
8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 22: Luke 2:13-15″]
13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 23: Luke 2:16-18″]
16 So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 24: Luke 2:19-20″]
19 But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 25: Luke 2:21″]
On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 26: 1 Peter 2:9″]
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 27: 1 Peter 2:10″]
10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 28: Philippians 1:9-11″]
9 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 29: Daniel 2:20-21″]
20 and said:
“Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever;
wisdom and power are his.
21 He changes times and seasons;
he deposes kings and raises up others.
He gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to the discerning.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 30: Daniel 2:22″]
22 He reveals deep and hidden things;
he knows what lies in darkness,
and light dwells with him.
[/learn_more][learn_more caption=”December 31: Daniel 2:23″]
23 I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors:
You have given me wisdom and power,
you have made known to me what we asked of you,
you have made known to us the dream of the king.”[/learn_more]
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