A Very California Christmas
Our family Christmas pics this year. What can I say? We live in Oceanside.
Archived entries for Christmas
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: Continue reading…
Announcing Progressive Advent
Our family is excited to be celebrating the Advent season this year with our newly initiated church family, Ikon Community. In addition to daily Advent readings and exercises from December 1 through the 24th, we’ll also be gathering in the homes of different Ikon families for each of the 4 Advent Sundays leading up to Christmas.
Jenell and I have worked every year to develop practices that help us re-appropriate Christmas as a truly Christ-centered holiday, and we’re excited to take this next step with a new group of friends. What do you and your family or church do during this season to refocus on the parousia of Christ? Continue reading…
