Every year, OFB’s Tim Butler assembles a Twelve Days of Christmas booklet to help anyone interested in meditating on the miracle of Christmas over that season between December 25 and Epiphany. This year’s booklet is the Kings Before, looking at Old Testament kings and what they do to help us understand who Jesus is. Today is the Seventh Day of Christmas, and if you haven’t already been on this thirteen day adventure with us, you can begin it right here.

Every year, OFB’s Tim Butler assembles a Twelve Days of Christmas booklet to help anyone interested in meditating on the miracle of Christmas over that season between December 25 and Epiphany. This year’s booklet is the Kings Before, looking at Old Testament kings and what they do to help us understand who Jesus is. The first day’s reading appears on this page exclusively ahead of the full release on Christmas night.

How can we envy given what God has given us? Paul has us think about our impulse to envy as we wrap up Galatians 5.

As we near the end of Galatians 5, Paul calls us to live as those without strife. Can we take strife-free living into our communities this New Year?

God calls us to lives of humility, appropriate before the one who humbled Himself even though He deserved not to.

How do we live lives filled with the Fruit of the Spirit? It all depends on His Spirit.

Pastor Tim thinks about what self-control looks like in relation to how we interact with others in this New Year.

Pastor Tim thinks about how the different aspects of the Fruit of the Spirit connect together as we arrive at the halfway point of our Twelve Days of Christmas journey to Epiphany.

Pastor Tim contemplates showing goodness on this Sixth Day of Christmas. How has God shown goodness to us and how can we show goodness to others?

Pastor Tim contemplates showing kindness on this Fifth Day of Christmas. How can we be the “kind” of people who are known as kind?