Daily Readings for Monday December 24,2012

Season of Annunciation

Colossians 4
6	Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer every one.
7	Tych'icus will tell you all about my affairs; he is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.
8	I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts,
9	and with him Ones'imus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of yourselves. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.
10	Aristar'chus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you have received instructions -- if he comes to you, receive him),
11	and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.
12	Ep'aphras, who is one of yourselves, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always remembering you earnestly in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
13	For I bear him witness that he has worked hard for you and for those in La-odice'a and in Hi-erap'olis.
14	Luke the beloved physician and Demas greet you.

John 1
14	And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.
15	(John bore witness to him, and cried, "This was he of whom I said, `He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before me.'")
16	And from his fulness have we all received, grace upon grace.
17	For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
18	No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.