Advent 2024
Everlasting Light Resources
This Advent season we want to take time to remember that the light of the world has come. In a simple stable two millennia ago, light broke out through the draughty cracks and spread across the whole world. We want to recognise that although there are still many ways that the world feels like it is in darkness, we can look forward to the fact that the light of the world will come. And we want to open our eyes to all the ways that light overcomes darkness, and consider how we can all look for that light, point it out, radiate it and belong to it.
So this Advent we say:
Let there be light – in all the places we see darkness, or feel weighed down by it.
Let there be light – in the joy and the sorrow, in the togetherness and loneliness, in the generosity and the scarcity.
Let there be light – in people’s lives this Christmas. May it brighten the places of life where there is light, and may it help to find a way through the places of darkness.
Teaching Starter Series
Sermon Starter Week One - The Dawning of the Light
Teaching starter based on the theme with biblical context, applications and reflections
Sermon Starter Week Two - Witness to the Light
Teaching starter with biblical context, challenges and reflections
Sermon Starter Week Three - Belong to the Light
Teaching starter with biblical context, challenges and reflections
Sermon Starter Week Four - Radiate the Light
Teaching starter with biblical context, challenges and reflections
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the 2024 Advent Resources.
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