The Sojourn Music blog has posted “Five Reasons You Should Celebrate Advent.”
5. It’s the antidote to the commercial “Christmas season.”
4. It’s an opportunity to rehearse and emphasize the whole gospel as part of the Christian year.
3. It’s a way to live in hope (even in perilous times).
2. It provides a place and structure for lament.
1. It reminds us to “watch and pray” for the Second Coming.
Read more at Sojourn Music.