Nancy de Mosse Walgmoo says a lot about their hearts.

There is no middle ground.

People are either for Jesus or they're against Jesus.

They either fall on him or they rise on him. They believe in him or they reject him

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Damas Walgou, author of The Wonder of His Name, for Friday, December 23rd.

I'm Danna Grash. Christmas is almost here.

Whether the Christmas story is new to you or you've heard it over and over. It's full of so many riches to be discovered.

Nancy's been in a series called My Eyes Have Seen Your Salvation.

She's given us an in-depth look at one of the characters often overlooked in our traditional

telling of the story, and here she is in the final message of that series.

Well we've come to a difficult part in the study of Simeon that we're doing from the Gospel of Luke

Chapter 2, difficult because Simeon has already expressed a psalm of praise and thanksgiving to the

Lord for what he has done in sending this child

Jesus into the temple in the arms of Mary and Joseph. Simeon has taken up this child

and blessed the Lord and said, God, I can die in peace now because you have sent your salvation.

This Jesus is a light for the world, a light for the Gentiles, a glory for Israel.

But then the tone turns as he turns to the mother and he

speaks this prophecy right on the heels of this blessing and praise and he says

but there's going to be pain associated in his life and in yours

with this whole matter of the gospel it's not going to be easy and so we pick up

in verse 34 of Luke chapter 2,

Simeon blessed Mary and Joseph and said to marry his mother,

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