How are you preparing your heart for Christmas? Celebrating Advent helps us focus on the spiritual aspects of Christmas in the midst of all the busyness of the holiday season. In 2024 Advent begins on December 1, and it continues through Christmas Eve. The Advent readings below are designed to help you prepare your heart for Christmas. Use them for personal reflection or make them part of a family tradition!
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The Prophecy Candle
What are you doing to get ready for Christmas? Thanksgiving and Black Friday are behind us. It’s all downhill now! We shop, decorate, cook, throw parties, attend parties, send out Christmas cards, and we never seem to have enough time. With all of the season’s activity, we can easily lose sight of the spiritual side of Christmas.
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Christmas is a time for celebration. It’s a time for joy and excitement. But, the celebration and joy are set against a backdrop of great need and even sorrow. We’re excited about Jesus’ arrival, in part, because we recognize that we need Him. In fact, the more we appreciate our need for Christ, the more we can appreciate His coming.
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Have you ever wondered why the Creator of the universe decided to enter His creation? Based on what we saw yesterday, Jesus came to Earth, at least in part, because we needed Him. He clearly cares about us a great deal. God’s love for us is a major theme of Christmas. But, if we want to gain a fuller understanding of why God became a man, we need to go back to the beginning of the story.
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We live in a broken world populated by broken people. As we saw yesterday, after God finished His work of creation, He pronounced everything He had made “very good” (Genesis 1:31). God didn’t mean that His creation was relatively good, He meant that it was absolutely good. It was perfect, without flaw, exactly the way He intended it to be. But now it’s broken.
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