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Advent is like celebrating a national holiday in a foreign land. It is like observing the 4th of July, or the Royal Jubilee, as an expatriate - we hand out sparklers and flags to friends, and we ask them to join in and belt out the national anthem, but they just don't see what all the fuss is about. Advent is equal parts cherishing and missing home. AND it's a mix of loving this world while getting ready to leave it behind. All of this makes A...

Most people think of Advent as a warm-up to Christmas, but actually, it's the other way around. Christmas is a preview of Advent!Christmas is the festival of rejoicing at Christ's first coming-the beautiful, unlikely start of our salvation! But each year, in the last week of December, the trees come down, the lights are unplugged, our nativity scenes are wrapped in newspaper, and our "Joy to the world" fades into silence until next year. Adven...