Why Do We Light Candles During Advent?

It is a few days before Advent begins, and I am getting everything ready for my celebration. Keep in mind that there are no MUST-Dos for Advent, but I like to read a Bible story each day, and I like to create ornaments for my Jesse Tree. I also like to light an Advent Candle…

Advent Eve – In the Beginning, the World was Dark and Wet and Empty

Tomorrow is the first day of Advent, and today we will start making things to honor the days before we celebrate Jesus’s birthday on Christmas Day. Each day we’ll talk about something that happened in the Bible before Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem. We will start in the very beginning — before…