Advent is usually celebrated in the Christian church in the weeks preceding Christmas stressing four topics: hope, peace, joy, and love represented by four candles. Advent is a term from the Latin word adventus, which means coming, the coming of our Savior. The Advent season started in the 1800s in Germany. Immigrants from…
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Praise and Worship
Then Ezra praised the Lord, the great God, and all the people chanted, “Amen! Amen!” as they lifted their hands. Then they bowed down and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground. (Nehemiah 8:6) I had thought about the difference in these two things we do in the…
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Advent Week 3 and 4
As we learned last week, the word “advent” means, “coming” or “arrival”. They were awaiting the arrival of our Savior and King during this Christmas season. We talked about HOPE and PEACE last week and, this week, I’m going to move it up a little, and focus on JOY and…
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Advent, Week 3
Joy. The third week of Advent focuses on Joy and Peace. Think of the Joy that were inside Mary and Joseph as they first gazed upon the face of their newborn baby Jesus. Every parent experiences this joy but it must have been multiplied for Mary and Joseph because of…
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Advent 2
As we learned last week, the word “advent” means, “coming” or “arrival”. They were awaiting the arrival of our Savior and King during this Christmas season. We talked about HOPE and PEACE last week and, this week, we are going to focus on JOY and LOVE. JOY. Some view joy…