Shine! Light for All People

By Patricia Farris Published 9/2011

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Our popular yearly Advent thematic study focuses on light as both a symbol of the birth of Christ and the ways in which our actions influence the lived of others. Offers four sessions, one for each Sunday of Advent. Each session features a Scripture reference, a personal reading, questions for personal reflection or group study, a closing prayer, and a focus for the coming week.

Chapters include:
“The light in the window” (light in the sorrow, pain, grief of our personal lives)
“Seeing in the dark” (light for the darkness of the world)
“Shine a light!” (light through the lives of committed young adults)
“The horizon is bright” (light of God’s promised future)

About the Author

Patricia Farris

Patricia Farris is Senior Minister at Santa Monica First UMC in Santa Monica, CA. Her congregation was one of 300 identified as Excellent Protestant Congregations (Westminster). She has written for Circuit Rider, Quarterly Review, and has contributed four "Living by the Word" columns to Christian Century.