Now is the time of anticipation for Christians—the joyful yet serious Advent season, the spiritual lead-up to the time of celebrating the birth of Jesus. Christian publishers have a wide range of ...

Churches start in many unique ways, often in small spaces and cramped quarters. For Silvia Santana in West Flanders, Belgium, it was around a coffee table. Christian Community is home to a ...

“It is fitting, my brethren, that we should celebrate this season of Advent with all possible devotion, rejoicing in so great a consolation, marveling at so great a condescension, inflamed with love ...

Carol Howard Merritt offers a one-page reflection for each of the days of Advent in a slim booklet that’s ideal for group use by members of congregations. The devotions, which cover Luke 1:35 to Luke ...

Daily devotional readings from Christianity Today. “I bring you good news …” (Luke 2:10). With these words, the angel began a stunning gospel proclamation: The Savior, the promised Messiah, the Lord, ...

Advent—the season of the Christian liturgical year beginning four Sundays before Christmas—is a perennial topic for religion publishers, and this year is no exception. Readers looking for a deeper ...

Advent doesn’t invite us to ascend to some divine heavenly realm, John Pavlovitz writes in Low. It invites us to bring heaven down to earth, to see in the birth of Jesus “divinity coming low to ...

Most of us have an intuitive understanding of Advent, based on experience, but what do the Church's official documents actually say about Advent? Here are some of the basic questions and (official!) ...