Advent Redemption at Heartland

I'm in my office at Heartland and preparing for the upcoming advent series. Advent season is one of those traditions that is handed to the current generation from the previous, and to them the previous. Advent is traditional. Something we do because we have done it before and have always have done it. For the most part it's not controversial, just accepted. Traditionally minded churches mark it into their worship planning calendar as a given. Church plants, emerging churches tend to evaluated everything and some of them may or may not back into Christmas via a run of four Sunday's of advent, colored candles and hope, peace, joy and love.

At Heartland, we've done advent in the past years. Even though we are only 10 years old as a church and began as a church plant, we have found advent as a way to focus on Jesus and his redemptive work in history -- a great excuse to dig into the historical movements towards Jesus and his work.