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This is a guide to Advent and Christmas worship planning resources from our website and our ministry partners' websites.
Experimenting with a different Advent or Christmas Eve worship format may help worshipers connect with the joy and wonder of Christ’s birth. Blue Christmas, Christmas pageants, Las Posadas, or lessons and carols make room for emotions, movement, culture, and people’s gifts.
Join Calvin University Capella, Women’s Chorale, and Campus Choir for their annual Lessons and Carols service at LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church on Sunday, December 8, at either 3 p.m. or 6 p.m. Both services will be livestreamed.
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Advent is a season inspired and guided by the Bible’s many apocalyptic texts—texts that candidly describe tribulation and gloom, prophesy stunning reversals and vindication, and evoke unsentimental hope and sturdy joy. These texts tell of stars beginning to fall, plead for the heavens to open, and portray choirs of angel armies singing.
El segundo tiempo ordinario del Año Cristiano y el Calendario litúrgico (octubre).
In Luke’s gospel we find several of Jesus’ best-known parables—stories that despite their renown are found nowhere else in scripture.
Advent is a season inspired and guided by the Bible’s many apocalyptic texts—texts that candidly describe tribulation and gloom, prophesy stunning reversals and vindication, and evoke unsentimental hope and sturdy joy. These texts tell of stars beginning to fall, plead for the heavens to open, and portray choirs of angel armies singing.
El segundo tiempo ordinario del Año Cristiano y el Calendario litúrgico (octubre).
In Luke’s gospel we find several of Jesus’ best-known parables—stories that despite their renown are found nowhere else in scripture.
Have you thought about what you are going to say to your congregation the day after? The Sunday after?
