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The season of Advent is upon us. It is a time in which many Christians throughout the world observe a period of waiting for the coming of Christ. In her new book, Advent – The Season of Hope (IVP Press), Tish Harrison Warren offers us a wise and thoughtful guide through this season of longing, reflection, and hopefulness.
In Advent, the coming of our Messiah is observed in the past, present, and future. We celebrate the past coming of Christ in the Incarnation, ending the season on Christmas. It is a time of preparing our hearts for the celebration of God’s in-breaking kingdom through the life and ministry of Jesus almost two thousand years ago. Advent is also a time of anticipating Christ’s future return and what His return means for us now, in the present. The birth of Jesus in ancient Israel profoundly changes everything, for all generations. Likewise, the promise of the future return of Jesus changes everything, not just for the last generation of humanity but for every Christian of the past and present.
In Advent- The Season of Hope, Warren reminds us that the return of Jesus is “God’s definitive response to the deepest longings of the human soul. It is our hope that truth, beauty, and goodness will last, and that evil, sorrow, and death will not. It is the promise that we and all the cosmos are not doomed to fate and left on our own, but that we will all be made whole and new…all our longings meet their end in Christ coming again, bringing healing, peace, joy, and an unimaginable wholeness in his wake.”
May hope, joy, peace, and love fill all our hearts this Advent season.
-Darrel Holcombe, Owner
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