Preparation for the Season of Preparation

Here are five things to do today or tomorrow in preparation for Advent: 1) Create a special corner in your house/apartment where adults and children can go to be quiet. Provide a Bible, book of daily meditations, or appropriate picture books. Put some candles (real or...

Gratitude Gobbler

I love drawing/praying my yearly gratitude turkey. The turkey is a visual journal of my life in the past twelve months. What I notice about my life in the past year is my tendency to be alone. This is not all bad. Keeping one’s own company and learning to...

Family Tree Advent Calendar

Advent is the beginning of the annual church pilgrimage through Scripture and salvation history. I think of it as the starting gate to the yearly reunion with our spiritual ancestors from the Bible and from two thousand years of Christian history. In the midst of...

Advent Calendar Templates 2014

Advent calendars are not just for kids! Instead of opening daily doors with pictures or retrieving small gifts from pockets, adults and children can mark the day-by-day journey to Christmas by praying/drawing on a blank calendar template. Pray for a person or write...

Study Guide for The Season of the Nativity

A FREE Study Guide for The Season of the Nativity: Confessions and Practices of an Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany Extremist is now available. Click here to download it. The downward facing arrow at the top is the button to download it. The guide is designed for a...