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Advent and Christmas Liturgy and Service Planning Resources

Check out Faith Alive Christian Resources' new Advent devotional "Coming Home", available now!

Jump directly to the Reformed Worship Advent/Christmas archive.

The following are articles from past issues of Reformed Worship Magazine:

• Preaching through Micah at Christmas.

  Old, Hughes Oliphant. Reformed Worship. 9. Fall 1988. 32-34. BV1 .R4.
  A six-part series spanning the Sundays from Thanksgiving to New Year's focusing on the Messianic hope of the Hebrew prophet Micah.

• He will come: seven themes for Advent and Christmas.

  Stolpe, Norman D. Reformed Worship. 21. Fall 1991. 03-17. BV1 .R4.
  A series for Advent and Christmas based on the Revised Common Lectionary, year C.

• Imaging tomorrow: living with Isaiah in Advent and Christmas.

  Jones, Willis. Reformed Worship. 25. Fall 1992. 05-17. BV1 .R4.
  An Advent and Christmas series based on the Isaiah texts found in the Revised Common Lectionary, year A.

• Looking for life in all the right places: an Advent series based on John 1.

  Brown, Timothy L. Reformed Worship. 33. Fall 1994. 08-12. BV1 .R4.

• Have you seen the angels? a series of Advent and Christmas services.

  Koeman, Kenneth D. Reformed Worship. 37. Fall 1995. 12-18. BV1 .R4.
  A five-part series exploring the role of angels in the Christmas narrative.

• When Advent doesn't feel like Christmas: a series for Advent and Christmas.

  Hoezee, Scott E., 1964-. Reformed Worship. 45. Fall 1997. 04-10,12. BV1 .R4.
  A series based on the Revised Common Lectionary, year C.

• Amazing Love: Series for the season, an innovative Advent series based on Hosea.

  Dekker, James C.. Reformed Worship. 53. Fall 1999. 03-11. BV1 .R4.

• Remembering the future: service plans and sermon sketches for Advent and Christmas.

  Bos, Kenneth; Hoezee, Scott E., 1964-. Reformed Worship. 57. Fall 2000. 03-13. BV1 .R4.
  A sermon series based on the Revised Common Lectionary, year C

• Mary, Mary, ordinary: service plans and monologues for Advent and Christmas.

  Slofstra, Peter. Reformed Worship. 61. Fall 2001. 08-15. BV1 .R4.
  A sermon series based on the portrait of Mary in the gospel of Luke.

• Six biblical characters, six traditions of faith: an Advent/Christmas series based on Richard Foster's Streams of Living Water.

  Hoytema, Peter. Reformed Worship. 65. Fall 2002. 09-16. BV1 .R4.

• In the Beginning was the Word.

  Eernisse, Roger. Reformed Worship. 69. September 2003. 11-17. BV1 .R4.
  A four-week Advent series based on John 1

• What? I Have to Preach the Christmas Story Again?: Fresh approaches to planning

  David A. Vroege : Reformed Worship 2004

• Listening to the Prophets

  Joan DeVries and David Locke and Mike Visser Reformed Worship 2006: