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Recovering the Heart of Advent: Weekly Advent Devotional
Advent is the four-week season before Christmas when Christians around the world prepare their hearts for Christ’s coming—not just remembering his birth long ago, but preparing for his coming kingdom of justice and peace. Each week we light a candle: one for hope, peace, joy, and love, and on Christmas Eve the Christ candle completes the circle of light.
This devotional is meant to help us rediscover these Advent themes as acts of courage and imagination. Long before Advent became synonymous with quiet reflection, it created space for bold expectation — communities learning to imagine and work for God’s reign of justice and peace in the midst of an oppressive empire. This Advent, we’re giving you reflections and simple family practices to help your household and/or congregation recover Advent’s original fire: the light that resists despair and joins God’s peacebuilding revolution in our own time.
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Starting November 27th, we’ll email you each Thursday with the Advent devotional content for the coming Sunday to help you prepare for your personal Advent practice, Sunday sermon, or whatever you want to use it for (scroll down to sign up).
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