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Advent Devotions: Is God Your Co-Pilot

For the Second Sunday of Advent our Devotional is "Switch Seats." An excerpt:

There's a company that makes T-shirts with spiritual themes. One of them shows an airplane being flown by a frantic pilot. The shirt says "If God is your co-pilot, switch seats." That's a statement that's simple, but sort of sums up our struggle. We often talk about how faith is hard. But I believe a certain amount of faith is really not difficult at all. It's not hard to acknowledge God. And I don't think it's hard for me to make God my co-pilot. Like this: "God, you keep an eye on the horizon and the dials and gauges while I fly the plane. But you be ready in case a storm comes up or we lose an engine or the wing falls off, because then I'm gonna need you to save the day."

Read the rest at our Advent Devotions pages. We're featuring a different Advent Devotional on each Sunday of Advent, closing the series on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24. We hope these meditations will be a blessing to you!

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TeachingMOM Advent Calendar

One of my favorite Advent activities, going back to my childhood, is the Advent Calendar. In our family we used to reveal the day's Advent calendar before dinner each night. The Advent Calendar has successfully made the leap to Cyberspace, and we link to some of the most popular ones on our Advent Calendars page.

The TeachingMOM Advent Calendar is an outstanding example of how a Web-based Advent calendar can be a great resource for family worship. Each day's entry features an abundance of goodies. Here's how TeachingMom's Leigh Ann describes it:

Every day on the TeachingMOM Advent Calendar is full of goodies to help you and your family create some wonderful traditions this Advent and Christmas, as well as have some good old-fashioned fun! You'll probably learn a few interesting facts about the season as well. We've collected some of the best on the net - and your public library! - for you all in one convenient spot. But don't feel that you should be doing everything listed on each day! The Advent Calendar was made to be used over again for as many years as you can get something out of it.

Make a point of visiting this excellent Advent resource today!

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