“The season of Advent often gets combined with Christmas, thanks to retail and academic calendars encroaching on the liturgical calendar and a general love for celebration and excess. Our duty as preachers and teachers, however, remains to remind our people that Advent is a time of quiet and profound preparation for the liturgical coming of the Lord; a time of reflection, of muted anticipation, of patience.”
Those are wise words, and they come from a piece by Leroy Huizenga at the Christian Leadership Center’s homiletics website, which I mentioned yesterday. You can find the rest here.
Matthew Schmitz is the deputy editor of First Things . You can follow him on Twitter .
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