It’s beginning to look a lot like . . . Advent! Starting the Sunday after Thanksgiving, Advent is the season of the church calendar that leads up to Christmas.
“Let’s get over to Bethlehem as fast as we can and see for ourselves what God has revealed to us.” (Luke 2:15 MSG)
This upcoming Sunday marks the beginning of the Advent Season.
In his 1939 Christmas Day radio address, King George VI of England quoted an obscure British writer named Minnie Louise Haskins, a retired missionary and social science instructor:
And I said to the man who stood at the
The following Advent reading is from All Is Bright by Nancy Guthrie. Download a sample of the devotional at the end of this post.
Growing up in the south, I could never relate to the idea of a white Christmas, sleigh bells ringing, or chestnuts roasting on an open fire. I could imagine them.