New Life with Advent

The Rutledge Advent tree with the original home made symbols.

These reflections are a result of 25 years of celebrating Advent as a family. As the years passed the verses, symbols and thoughts developed into what you now see here. I hope you are blessed by what we as a family have enjoyed for so many years.

This 2018 repost of these devotions starts HERE. 

The original symbols are family made. Sometimes by Bev or myself, other times they were done by the children, and other times a combination of the two.  Cheree and I have taken the originals and improved them digitally, but they remain basicly the same.
The original reflections were written in December 2006. They were later translated to Spanish by John and revised by my son-in-law, Vicente Diaz. A final Spanish review and revision was done by profesora Maritza del Socorro Guerrero Tellez.  

The original 2010 Spanish posts can be found HERE.

Several years passed and I revised and recorded all the Spanish reflections into one minute thoughts to be played on the radio the 31 days before Christmas.

Let us not forget the reason for the Christmas season, the remembrance of the birth Jesus of Nazareth, God incarnate. May He forever live within us and be seen without, where ever we go.

Below is listed the 31 day sequence with verses. 

Merry Christmas

November 25 - He was… In the Beginning: John 1:1-5
November 26 - He is… Creator and Sustainer of the Universe: Colossians 1:15-17; Hebrews 1:3
November 27 - The Creation of Man: Genesis 2:7, 15-25
November 28 - The Fall of Man: Genesis 3:1-13
November 29 - The Promise of a Messiah: Genesis 3:15
November 30 - The Sacrifice of Isaac: Genesis 22:9-12,16; John 3:16
December 1 - Prophet’s Trumpet [A prophet Like Moses]: Dueteronomy 18:15-19
December 2 - The Snake on a Pole: Numbers 21:9; Isaiah 53:5; John 3:14
December 3 - The Righteous Scepter: Numbers 24:17; Hebrews 1:8
December 4 - Born of a Virgin: Isaiah 7:10-14; Matthew 1:23
December 5 - Prince of Peace: Isaiah 9:6
December 6 - The Belt of Righteousness and Faithfulness: Isaiah 11:5
December 7 - The Shepherd King: Ezekiel 34:23-24
December 8 - The Servant King: Isaiah 42:1-4
December 9 - A Light for the Nations: Isaiah 42:6-7; 49:1-7; Luke 2:30-32
December 10 - The Lamb of God: Isaiah 53:4-8; John 1:29; Revelations 5:5-14
December 11 - The Spirit of the LORD Is Upon Me: Isaiah 61:1-3
December 12 - The Shoot of Jesse, The Branch of Righteousness: Jeremiah 23:5-6
December 13 - The King of Peace: Zechariah 9:9
December 14 - He is Building His Temple: Zechariah 6:12-13; Revelations 21:3; 2 Corinthians 6:16
December 15 - The Alpha and Omega: Revelations 21:6; 22:13; Isaiah 41:4
December 16 - I Send My Messenger: Malachi 3:1; Isaiah 40:3-5
December 17 - The Announcements: Luke 1:26-38; Matthew 1:18-25
December 18 - Mary’s Song, The Magnificante: Luke 1:39-56
December 19 - His name is John: Luke 1:57-80
December 20 - Born in Bethlehem: Insufficient?: Micah 5:2-4; Matthew 2:1
December 21 - She Laid Him in Manger: Luke 2:1-7
December 22 - The Shepherds: Luke 2:8-20
December 23 - The Wise Men: Matthew 2:1-12
December 24 - Jesus, The Best Present Ever: Romans 6:23; 5:17
December 25 - The Star: John 8:12