The following is an announcement from CBF-partner Passport Inc. Learn more at http://www.passportcamps.org. (BIRMINGHAM, AL) –Following the Star, the devotional series for Advent and Christmas, returns to Passport, Inc.’s devotional website d365.org November 26. This series features scripture, prayer, and meditative thoughts accompanied by gentle music. Writers Tasha Gibson, Amy Kim Kyremes-Parks, Becky Caswell-Speight, Brian … Continue reading
Mark Wingfield, Associate Pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas and former managing editor of the Baptist Standard, reflects on the forethought and intentionality that must accompany the season of Advent. This summer, when the published church calendar showed a Hanging of the Green meeting, several church members questioned whether that was a typo. … Continue reading
Our friends at Duke Divinity’s Faith & Leadership program asked CBF Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal to share the disciplines he finds most helpful in making his Advent season meaningful. To learn about Daniel’s Advent disciplines, read the piece online. After you check it out, come back to this post and share what’s been meaningful for … Continue reading
The following post is from Jim Pope, Associate for Military Chaplaincy for the CBF. As we move deeper into Advent and our senses are quickened by familiar music and aromas that transport us to distant times and familiar places; as our hearts beat more rapidly at the sight of shepherds and stars and the image … Continue reading
Louisville-area churches have a meaningful innovation for the Second Sunday of Advent. Highland Baptist Church joins with Ridgewood Baptist and St. William Catholic churches in Louisville this Sunday to remember victims of violence and their families in their community by placing crosses on the front lawn of the church. This Sunday following their morning worship services, Highland … Continue reading
Put this great idea in your file for 2011 Christmas/Advent!! (submitted by Becky Lynch, member of Boulevard Baptist Church, Anderson, SC) Boulevard’s 7th annual Alternative Christmas Fair was December 4 – 5. The occasion brought shoppers from our church family as well as our community to “shop” for gifts at 10 ministry tables including Global … Continue reading
Bill Cosby was right. Jell-O is delicious and kids really do say the darnedest things. Parents of small children of course know this, but so does anyone who attends a church that has some sort of regular “children’s moment” during worship. And the ministers who lead these moments know it even more. This past Sunday … Continue reading
