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    A Family Advent: Keeping the Savior in the Season
    A Family Advent: Keeping the Savior in the Season
    A Family Advent: Keeping the Savior in the Season
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    A Family Advent: Keeping the Savior in the Season

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    A perfect Advent celebration guide for families!

    Celebrating the season of Advent keeps us focused on the most important reasons we celebrate Christmas. A Family Advent presents guided heartfelt and thought-provoking devotionals with fun facts, journeys back in time, activities, and much more. This book is a perfect way to get the whole family together for a few minutes every day to discover fun yet meaningful ways for keeping Jesus the center of the season. Do you know what each verse of The Twelve Days of Christmas really means? Do you know how many different kinds of angels there are or which nativity character is most like you? Do you know how wonderful God's gifts of Hope, Peace, Love, and Joy are? It's time to find out. Begin your journey by lighting the first candle!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateSep 30, 2008
    ISBN9781418583866
    A Family Advent: Keeping the Savior in the Season

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      A Family Advent - Thomas Nelson Gift Books

      A Gift for:

      On the Occasion of:

      From:

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      We would like to thank MacKenzie Clark Howard, Ariel Faulkner, and Sandra Lee Clark for their contribution with researching and writing A Family Advent.

      A Family Advent

      Copyright © 2008 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson®. Thomas Nelson is a registered trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Thomas Nelson, Inc. titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.

      Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture references are from The Holy Bible, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION® © 1973, 1978, 1984 By International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

      Project Editor: Lisa Stilwell

      Designed by Koechel Peterson Design, Minneapolis, MN

      ISBN-10: 1–4041–8676–X

      ISBN-13: 978–1–4041–8676–7

      Printed and bound in China

      www.thomasnelson.com

      This book IS DEDICATED

      TO HELPING YOU AND YOURS

      grow closer TO OUR LORD AND SAVIOR,

      AND to each other AT CHRISTMAS.

      TABLE OF Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      Week 1 ~ Hope

      Week 2 ~ Peace

      Week 3 ~ Love

      Week 4 ~ Joy

      Introduction

      Two thousand years ago in Bethlehem, the world received a very important gift. That’s when Jesus first came to earth to walk among us and save us from our sins. And that’s what we celebrate every Christmas. For centuries, Christians have anticipated Christmas Day with a month-long observance called Advent.

      Advent comes from the Latin adventus and means coming. The main event is the coming, or birth, of Jesus our Savior. As the saints of old anticipated the coming of Christ with great expectation, we, too, eagerly await His return.

      The four weeks of Advent, beginning the Sunday nearest November through midnight Christmas Eve, represent the four great comings of Christ. The first is His coming in the flesh, His birth, which we celebrate on Christmas Day. The second is His coming into the hearts of all who believe in Him. The third is His coming at the hour of death to the faithful, and the fourth is His coming at the final judgment. To symbolize this progression, Christians use Advent wreaths and candles.

      Advent wreaths are attributed to Martin Luther (1483–1546), a German priest who initiated the Protestant Reformation, and they’re designed using evergreen branches forming a never-ending circle. The circle and the evergreen branches both symbolize the promise of eternal life through Christ. Four candles (three purple and one pink) are placed on the wreath, representing the four Sundays of Advent. The three purple candles represent penance, and the fourth pink candle is to remind us of the incredible joy that awaits us with the arrival of the Christ child. A fifth candle, generally white and placed in the center of the wreath, is the Christ candle and is lit on Christmas Eve in honor of His birth.

      Advent is so much more than a holiday or a tradition of remembrance or memorial; it is a time of spiritual cleansing and growth in Christ. Since the early saints, it has been a time of penitence and fasting, a time of reflection and seeking the Lord. But in current times—in the hustle and bustle of school and church activities, shopping, baking and wrapping—we tend to lose sight of why we do what we do at Christmastime.

      It is our hope that this book will help bring you back to a traditional way of worshiping God and celebrating the birth of His Son at Christmas. We hope that in observing these traditions your family will draw closer together and create wonderful new memories and lasting traditions to enjoy year after year. Most of all, we pray this journey brings you deeper, more meaningful communion with our Lord Jesus, the One who came to save us all.

      Here is my servant

      whom I have chosen, the one

      I love, in whom I delight;

      I will put my Spirit on him,

      and he will proclaim justice to

      the nations.... In his name

      the nations will put their hope."

      Matthew 12:18, 21

      Hope

      Hope is the first topic to

      begin our spiritual journey.

      Light a purple Advent

      candle together as a family.

      1

      Sunday

      "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in

      God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are

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