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Advent Week Four Reflection Guide
Each week during Advent, we will be releasing a weekly reflection guide to help you and your family prepare your hearts for Christmas. The theme for this final week of Advent is peace. This week’s guide considers how the fourth title given to the promised Messiah in Isaiah 9:6, Prince of Peace, means that as Christians we…
Read MoreAdvent Week Three Reflection Guide
Each week during Advent, we will be releasing a weekly reflection guide to help you and your family prepare your hearts for Christmas. The theme for this week of Advent is joy. This week’s guide considers how the third title given to the promised Messiah in Isaiah 9:6, Everlasting Father, means that real joy is available to us right now…
Read MoreAdvent Week Two Reflection Guide
We hope this reflection guide will help you and your family prepare your hearts for Christmas by taking some time each week to reflect on what Christmas truly means for us and our world. The theme for this week of Advent is love. This week’s guide considers how the second title given to the promised…
Read MoreAdvent Week One Reflection Guide
We hope this reflection guide will help you and your family prepare your hearts for Christmas by taking some time each week to reflect on what Christmas truly means for us and our world. The traditional theme for the first week of Advent is hope. This week’s guide considers how the first title given to…
Read MoreChristmas at Redemption
“Long lay the world In sin and error pining, ’Til He appear’d And the soul felt its worth.” – O Holy Night This year has brought about a lot of reflection in our lives, and I can think of no moment better to ponder the arrival of Christ Jesus. Jesus has a history of breaking…
Read MoreAdvent Guide & Invitation to Reflect
What is Advent? ad·vent /ˈadˌvent/ noun The arrival of a notable person, thing, or event. The first season of the Christian church year, leading up to Christmas and including the four preceding Sundays. synonyms arrival, appearance, emergence, materialization, occurrence, dawn, birth, rise, development Advent comes from the Latin word Adventus which means coming or arrival. It is…
Read MoreADVENT – A Christmas Season Practice
What is Advent? Advent comes from the latin word Adventus which means coming or arrival. It is a season of preparation for Christmas that lasts around four weeks. It is a time to prepare our hearts in celebration of the birth of our Savior, Jesus. It is also a time to look forward in anticipation to our Savior’s promised…
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