PRINCETON UMC
Advent Devotional
Check out this amazing resource to support you through our Advent series: Grace Upon Grace. Take part in spiritual practices that equip you in encountering God's abundance through prayer and reflection.
PEACE
"Peaceful Abundance"
We wait for and long for the Prince of Peace, who gives the world God’s abundant peace, that can quell our anxiety, our fear, our need to destroy, dominate, and hoard, so that we can turn our energy to the flourishing of all of creation.
Isaiah 2:1-5
Rev. Jenny Smith Walz, Princeton
Mickey Hamilton, Kingston
HOPE
"Hopeful Abundance"
We join with creation in everlasting joy In Jesus’ birth, and reign,
God’s abundant hope for us all shows us that Jesus will change the desires of us all: God’s dwelling among us will lead to a surprising Community of lions and lambs.
Isaiah 11:1-10
Rev. Jenny Smith Walz, Princeton
Rev. Skitch Matson, Kingston
JOY
"Joyful Abundance"
We join with creation in everlasting joy as we receive the Creator’s grace which extends to all the earth.
Isaiah 35:1-10
Rev. Jenny Smith Walz, Princeton
Rev. Skitch Matson, Kingston
LOVE
"Love-Filled Abundance"
We wait, we long for Immanuel, the incarnate one, who bears in his being the fullness of God’s abundant love and grace.
Isaiah 7:10-16
Rev. Jenny Smith Walz, Princeton
BEAUTY
"Beauty-Full Abundance"
Grieving is like a knife that can be held by a murderer to kill or by a surgeon to save. Our measure of healthy grief is the cup that we will allow God’s grace to overflow.
Isaiah 61:1-3
Pastor Jae Hong, Princeton