Advent: The Promise of Hope

The older I get and the longer I serve in pastoral ministry, the more I see the Advent season in sharp relief.

As a child, I don’t think I was even aware of a season called “Advent” beyond opening little paper doors on a calendar. I have many great memories of those early Advent days. The was always great anticipation for my brother and I as we slowly opened our way to December 25.

An awareness of Advent pretty much fell out of my life while I was in college, but it returned in those early po...