Recommended Advent Devotional Materials from Pastor Dan:
- Top recommendation is written by JD Walt, “Sower-in-Chief” at Seedbed, which is the publishing arm of Asbury Seminary. You can find more details by clicking on this link.
- If you use the Bible app from You version (available on App and Play stores), go to “Plans,” then in the search box, type in “Advent”. Many available plans should come up. One Pastor Dan recommends that he’s used before is “Rediscovering the Christmas Season” from Life.Church.
- There is another online devotional called d365, found here. It’s a bit more focused toward youth and young adults, sometimes more obviously so than others. As the season turns to Advent, he expects their devotions will take up the theme as well.
- Another resource Pastor Dan turned to many years is a book called, “Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christmas Sermons.” It begins with some of his Advent thoughts and turns to Christmas. If you search for your favorite theologian, or preacher, they might have a similar volume.
Be sure to invite a friend during this Advent/Christmas season as we celebrate “Christmas at the Movies!” Check out the bulletin, weekly email, and cards in the pew racks in the sanctuary for the many events at Pender in the weeks to come as we celebrate Messiah’s incarnation and second coming!
Grace and peace, from Pastor Dan!
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Please join us this Sunday, December 21st, in worship at the 8:15, 9:30 and 11:00 Services.
8:15 & 11:00 Services Sermon Title: “If you take the CHRIST Out of Christmas, What Do You Have Left?” (Isaiah 9:6-7)
9:30 Common Ground Sermon Title: “Celebrate Jesus!” (Luke 1:46-56)
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Please join us this Sunday in worship at the 8:15, 9:30 and 11:00 Services.
8:15 & 11:00 Services Sermon Title: “Christmas is Not Your Birthday”
9:30 Common Ground Sermon Title: “Keeping Christ in Christmas”
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In the spirit of Advent we are excited to offer devotionals written by the congregants here at Pender church. We hope that in these busy and hectic times, you will return each day, to find peace and Christ in the stories you will find here:
http://www.penderumc.org/devotional
A new devotion will be found each day (except Sunday).
Today’s is by Ken D and is available now. The reading is “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
(1 Thessalonians 5:16–18, NIV)
Enjoy the rest of the devotion here: http://www.penderumc.org/devotional
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