Daily Advent Reading at Ikon Community
I mentioned recently that we’re celebrating a Progressive Advent over at Ikon Community – which just means we’re moving our four Advent gatherings to different homes each week. We had a great gathering last Sunday night for our first Candle lighting service and I personally enjoyed that we pulled both kids and adults into the liturgy (although it was a bit odd switching gears and being so formal!).
We’re also practicing daily Advent Readings together to enter into a rhythm of worship and formation during this season as we seek to prepare ourselves for the celebration of Christmas. From December 1 through December 24th we’ll follow three major scriptural themes concerning Christ:
- The prophetic promises of the coming messiah in Isaiah
- The first coming of Christ through the narrative of his birth in Matthew and Luke
- His teaching concerning the end of the age and his own second coming in Matthew 24 and 25
There are even shorter snippets of the same passages for young children. If you’re interested in following along, they will be posted first thing every morning at Ikoncommunity.com. You can visit the site or subscribe to the daily feed via your feed reader or email.
Finally, my wife and I also put together a daily Advent Calendar with the help of our girls that will hopefully help them engage with the practice of the season. I’ll post on that project tomorrow, but in the meantime, what are you doing to make Advent – and Christmas – more meaningful?
