“I saw beyond the Advent,” Timmerman said, “It steered me more clearly to purposes and ends. This book points toward the Second Coming.” Light of the World is a companion to Woman, Why Are You Weeping ...

provides a painting a day from Advent to Epiphany. Each day ends with a couple of questions and a collect. This book takes up two seasonal themes: namely, the first coming at Christmas, and the second ...

Simply Wait: Cultivating Stillness in the Season of Advent By Pamela Hawkins (Upper Room) Let this book walk you through the Advent and Christmas seasons on your own or with a small group.

The theme for second Advent embraces the prophets who foretold ... Christian historian John Pahl, writing in his insightful book "Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces," says: "If places as ...

On the second Sunday of November this year ... seminary Bexley Hall and the author of the book What Are We Waiting For?: Re-Imaging Advent for Time to Come. He argues that expanding Advent ...

The oldest document in which we find the length and exercises of Advent mentioned with anything like clearness, is a passage in the second book of the History of the Franks by St. Gregory of Tours ...

In her book Advent: The Once and Future Coming of ... Take heart, there is a second advent of our King. He’s coming soon. And when he does, he’ll eradicate addictions, mend brokenness in ...

Similarly, during Advent, we prepare for the coming of Christ, both on Christmas and at the Second Coming. The rose candle is illuminated on the Third Sunday of Advent, known as Gaudete Sunday.