Rather than announce she was starting the season a few weeks early, she simply began to preach on Advent themes and asked the church musicians to hold back on Christmas music until closer to Dec. 25.

Advent is a season in the Church’s life intended to renew the experience of waiting and longing for the Messiah. Though Christ has already come into the world, the Church invites us to renew our ...

What is the true meaning of Advent? We talked to Ryan Weekley, evangelist at Phoenix Church of Christ, who said people often think of Advent as a calendar that starts on Dec. 1 and counts up to ...

First Covenant Church will be holding a special advent ceremony Wednesday following a vandalism event at the church that prevented service from being held Sunday. The church, located at 530 Spring St.

Advent gets its name from adventus, the Latin word for “arrival.” As the Christian church solidified in the fifth century A.D., so did traditions around December 25.

The name Advent (From the Latin word Adventus, which signifies a coming) is applied, in the Latin Church, to that period of the year, during which the Church requires the faithful to prepare for ...

• Advent Lutheran Church, 16 Telford Ave., West Lawn, begins celebration of its 100th anniversary year with a concert by the Kutztown University Choir, under the direction of Dr. Derrick ...

Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 N. May St. in Aurora, is celebrating the Advent season by fighting hunger. The third of four weekly sermons, food/toiletry collections and sandwich-making ...

For the modern Christian church, advent begins on Advent Sunday, which is the fourth Sunday before Christmas. Since December 25 falls on a different day of the week every year, ...

First Presbyterian Church is inviting the community to join in observance of Advent as the preparation for the celebration of the arrival of the Christ Child on Christmas Day.