WordWorkers
2024 Advent Calendar

Every Advent, All Saints' team of writers, WordWorkers, creates a virtual "Advent Calendar."  Each day from the first Sunday of Advent (December 1, 2024) through Christmas Day features a unique piece of original writing. The pieces range across scriptural devotion, Christmas memories, meditations, seasonal poetry, and extended fiction. You can easily explore the writings, or you can simply read them in the order they are posted.

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Herald
December 8th, 2024
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the region around the Jordan, procla...
Advent Wreath
December 7th, 2024
The Advent wreath is an excellent symbol for the annual cycle of Advent into Christmas. We place this evergreen circle topped with five candles in the sanctuary. Each of the four Sundays of Advent we light another one of the candles along the outer edge. The already lit candles each week remind us of how far we come through this season of waiting, while the remaining candles remind us that there i...
Nostalgia
December 6th, 2024
This past Tuesday, I went to one of our Inspired Life events where Erinn Frees, a board certified music therapist, talked about music therapy and how she uses music in her job to care for people. It was a fantastic talk where we didn’t just hear about her work, but also got to experience some techniques ourselves.One idea that stuck with me was the power of music to resurface nearly forgotten memo...
Cozy Moments
December 5th, 2024
Isn’t it odd that snow can be cozy? It’s frozen water that is sometimes soft and fluffy, sometimes hard and stinging, and sometimes slick and greasy. It hits the exposed skin of your face and melts into a cold liquid that runs down your neck. It only falls when the temperatures are at or below freezing. Sometimes well below!Yet on a winter evening, as the flakes swirl around in the warm light cast...
Dear Diary...
December 4th, 2024
I think everyone who feels the weight of the world on them should try journaling. Writing words down is an excellent, and healthy, way to work through strong emotions, positive or negative. You might already be saying that it is not for you, but let me give you a few tips before you reject it outright.How do you keep a journal? You could write out your reflections longhand in a notebook. The first...
Burnt Out
December 3rd, 2024
Have you ever had a string of Christmas lights go out on you? In my experience, the two times it happens is right after you finish decorating the tree or ten minutes before the guests arrive for a party. It can be incredibly frustrating when those beautiful twinkling lights suddenly go dark. You want to take the whole string and toss them in the trash. After all, they don’t work any more, so why b...
Buy Now - Best Deal of the Year
December 2nd, 2024
If you’re like me, you’ve already been inundated with Christmas ads for a month. Emails, catalogs, pop-ups, TV commercials. You may have had an involuntary shudder just from reading the title of this post and thought I was trying to shill something at you. Each of these ads promises, explicitly or not, that their product will solve all your problems, improve your life, and finally give you real ha...
With Hopeful Expectation
December 1st, 2024
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety. And this is the name by which it will be called: “The L...
Advent Calendar Begins This Sunday
November 26th, 2024
Advent begins this Sunday, and the Word Workers are presenting their fourth annual Advent Calendar. Every day there is a post of a short piece created by the Word Workers and All Saints members.There is still room for you to contribute a favorite Christmas memory or tradition. If you have a story you would like to share, please email Aaron Achartz or leave it in his mailbox.If you are more of a re...
Share Your Christmas Story
November 4th, 2024
Advent is quickly approaching, and the Word Workers are presenting their fifth annual Advent Calendar. ...