Christmas comes soon; what are you doing to get ready?

If you celebrate Christmas, even from a secular perspective, your preparations likely involve gifts and parties and food and decorations. It's fun at first, but easily becomes something that wears us out.

Preparation is important for Christmas from a Christian perspective, too - but it doesn't involve any of the traditional Christmasy activities. In this episode of Ascension on Air, as we continue our series A Real Christmas, we listen to a man whose job it was to prepare the people in his time, to get them ready, for Jesus - through repentance.

Bible Reference: Luke 3:1-6

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This episode begins a new series at Ascension called A Real Christmas. Christmas can mean a lot of different things to different people, and it's easy to get swept up in the parties and gifts and everything else around us; but what makes for a real Christmas? That's what this series will explore, starting with this first episode that's all about Jesus' coming and why that matters.

Bible Reference: 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13

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This episode closes out our series, Live Like You'll Live Forever, this time considering how we live now given Christ's imminent return. Spoiler alert: Jesus sums up both his warning and encouragement in a single word: watch.

So are you? Are you really watching confident of what's to come?

Bible Reference: Mark 13:26-37

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