As I write this Christmas is upon us, or so the world will tell us. Netflix, Hulu and Peacock are playing Christmas movies. The radio is playing Christmas songs. The stores are decorated. People ...

Christmas may be two months away but many 2024 advent calendars from a variety of retailers are already flying off the ...

And isn’t that what Advent is for? Isn’t it to prepare us with our acts of loving others for the coming of the Savior, either as the King of the universe, or as a baby cuddled in his mother’s arms?

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice ... Then the family can sing a song, an Advent carol, if it knows one, then it is time to bless the crib and eat Christmas Eve supper.