All Earth Is Waiting

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All Earth Is Waiting

Good News for God’s Creation at Advent

Author: Katie Z. Dawson

The whole created world waits and hopes for the coming of Christ.

All Earth Is Waiting invites readers to explore the familiar Advent themes of hope, preparation, joy, and peace with the heavens and earth in mind. Through her powerful and personal reflections, author Katie Z. Dawson calls us to consider how all creation longs for the coming of Christ, taking seriously the notion that the good news of Christ is good news for all the world. Anticipating in Christ’s birth the reconciliation of the heavens and the earth, Dawson highlights the responsibility to care for this earth in preparation for Christ’s return.

This thematic Bible study is designed to be used by individuals and small groups during Advent. Each chapter offers questions for reflection and discussion, a brief prayer, and a focus for the week that will encourage readers to engage a specific act of creation care that will help them apply the week’s lesson.

Also included are Advent candle lighting liturgies, a Call to Worship, a Prayer of Confession that can be used throughout Advent, and hymn suggestions for each chapter. These can be used for small group worship opportunities or in corporate worship.

The book’s chapters include:

1. The Source of Hope
2. Clear the Way
3. Discovering Joy
4. The Peace of the World
5. The Reconciliation of Heaven and Earth

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About the Author

Katie Z. Dawson is currently the lead pastor at Immanuel United Methodist Church in Des Moines, Iowa. At Simpson College she studied communications, religion, and physics and then received her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School. Katie and her husband, Brandon, enjoy playing disc golf, spending time with family, and their two cats, Tiki and Turbo. When she can find the time, Katie blogs at SalvagedFaith.com.

2017/09

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