Advent 2025

In a sense, Advent is both the beginning and the end of the church year. It’s a time many Christians take to remember Jesus’s first coming and to look forward to his second. It’s the time of the church year that best represents our lives in this world—filled with the joy of Jesus’s first coming, and yet longing for him to come again.

For the four Sundays of Advent this year, we will be looking together through four songs in the Gospel of Luke. These are four responses to the announcement of Jesus’s birth. What we want to be reminded of through these passages is that God is worthy of our praise. God deserves our worship, and he particularly deserves our worship because he is the God who saves. God our Father sent his Son for us. God the Son became fully human in order to save us. God the Holy Spirit empowered this redeeming work from conception to crucifixion to resurrection. God is worthy of our praise because he is the God who saves. He is the God who came to earth to rescue us.

The great truth we remember this season is that the Son of God took on a complete human nature so that he could redeem us. As the fourth century defender of our faith Athanasius averred, “The Son of God became a son of man so that we could become sons of God.” Our Lord Jesus became like us so that we could be adopted as sons and daughters of God.

In this seasons of Advent, we respond in worship. We rejoice in Jesus’s first coming through worship. And, we wait for his second in worship. Our God is the God who saves, and so he is worthy of all praise.