Advent Booklet 2010
This year I did something adventurous. I decided to put out a guide for the Advent season that includes prayers and readings for the Advent season. I wanted the guide to be an interaction with the Church-past and to somewhat disassociate with the contemporary church to help us remove ourselves from the “mayhem” of our current holiday season.
Advent has been a liturgical season that has blessed my family for a few years now. We have an Advent wreath, light the candles, and pray together each Sunday during Advent. Since Advent has blessed me (and my family) so much, I decided to put something together for our church, Redemption Church, so that others might find the same enjoyment. Most evangelicals don’t observe Advent, I’ve found. I didn’t much when I was growing up, and I am sure many Christians (evangelical and not) are in the same boat. However, I believed such a guide would help followers of Jesus through this season.
Advent is a time of anticipation. In the biblical story, Christ has yet to come at this point. He has yet to be born, and we enter in and identify with this story. I hope this guide is as useful to you as it will be for me.
A few words about the guide:
- The guide has an introduction to the season and instructions on how to use the guide throughout
- It was printed and distributed as hard-copies, but here I have provided the PDF. Thus, instead of two pages adjacent to one another, you will have to go about viewing one page at a time.
- A piece of art reflecting on the Scripture, Scripture readings, a prayer, and recitation are provided for each week of Advent. On Christmas Day, which has been included, there includes some reflection.
- Each page of the Advent weeks are bordered with the color of the candle to light on your Advent wreath, if you have one (e.g., Week 1 - purple border for purple candle).
- Finally, the last two pages include practical steps for the Advent season. These are given in hopes of sparking the creation of your own Advent traditions.
Overall, I hope you enjoy the guide, and I pray that God blesses you through his words and voices from the past surrounding this Advent season.
God bless!
Evan
